Jj

One day at a time

[Jj @munene_jackie]

@phennyodera @YwayaTajiri I hope nitakumbuka😂😂

[Jj @munene_jackie]

@GhostOfSocrates I've allowed myself to be rage baited.

[Jj @munene_jackie]

💔💔

[Daily Nation @NationAfrica]

The mother of a Form Four student died on the spot while her husband sustained injuries after the car they were travelling in was involved in an accident at Kariandusi area along the Nakuru – Gilgil highway. https://t.co/3CcugS1qL2

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[Muthoni wa Muthomo @GlitteringAnge]

Where are women elected officials who held a press conference to defend Susan Kihika US babies. Where are they to defend a school girl who was sexualised by Karen Nyamu

[Jj @munene_jackie]

@destinyzee 😂😂

[Kshitiz Garg @KshitIsReal]

Some orders and judgments are beautifully written that you cannot help but appreciate them.

[The Standard Digital @StandardKenya]

Court rules that a person can’t be committed to civil jail for failing to pay a debt, in Sh788,000 dispute; Justice Nyakundi says it’s unfair to punish someone for lacking money.

[Jj @munene_jackie]

@CounselAllanVic 😂😂

[Jj @munene_jackie]

I may have reservations on the practicality of her current bill but her record is commendable @Hon_Njeri_Maina

[Jame @Cjamehk]

The mp who has sponsored many bills in the NA is Kirinyaga Woman rep Njeri Maina.
She voted no for Finance Bill 2024,She bailed out Genz's arrested during protests and offered pro bono legal services as an advocate

Asante sana @Hon_Njeri_Maina wewe ndiye kiongozi

[Daily Nation @NationAfrica]

HIGH COURT quashes section 95(1)(b) of the Penal Code; rules offence of creating disturbance in a manner likely to cause a breach of peace is unconstitutional and vague.

[Jj @munene_jackie]

Is this a rage bait?

[Hussein Mohamed, MBS. @HusseinMohamedg]

Macroeconomic indicators today vs 2022 when President Ruto took office:

Inflation: 9.6%→4.6%
Dollar: Ksh 165→129
Reserves: $5.7B→$12B - highest in independent Kenya
CBR: 13%→9.25%
GDP: KSh17T — largest in East & C Africa, 6th in Africa.

Who can deny such progress?

[Kenya Law @MyKenyaLaw]

Extrajudicial killings, arrest, abduction, detention, harassment, intimidation, torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of persons exercising their rights to protest against the Finance Bill, 2024 is a gross violation of the Constitution.

https://t.co/9cnhaHkuhq

[Jj @munene_jackie]

@phennyodera Nashangaa sana 😂😂

[Jj @munene_jackie]

Start from?😂😂

[Jonte @mleviwakanairo]

@mumira_nic @TeyaKevin He's a lawyer n their salaries start from 700k per month. So akadai hii ni matusi juu 100k kwake ni budget ya tei per month

[George Tsitati @Tsitati_George]

In 2025, do not succumb to the notion that a degree is merely an artefact of paper. Your education embodies your intellectual journey, a testament to your capacity for reason, and a cornerstone against the shadows of ignorance.

[Jj @munene_jackie]

@shobanes Even worse is that he'll not even struggle to be re-elected

[Brena @Breany_22]

How are we priorizing Statehouse renovations over Education?? The man who stays at Statehouse has farms and houses far and wide, and statehouse wasn't leaking, I doubt there was any urgency. Do these kids have an option? Man I hate this government😭

[Jj @munene_jackie]

@a_boboh Everyday we discover a new low😭😭

[Jj @munene_jackie]

Are we not at the basement of the barrel's bottom yet? 😭😭

[The Standard Digital @StandardKenya]

New secondary school capitation is Sh16,900, down from Sh22,244, Treasury CS Mbadi announces, warns government can’t sustain free primary and secondary education.