Elias Mwangi

As above as below

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

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.

[Elias Mwangi @mwasballs]

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[Elias Mwangi @mwasballs]

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[Elias Mwangi @mwasballs]

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[Elias Mwangi @mwasballs]

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[Jason Marshall @__JasonMarshall]

Nairobi would still be my first choice to move to were I to relocate to Africa. Perfect weather, good value housing (if coming from the USA), good infrastructure, safe, diverse food options, good weekend trips.

Not perfect, no place is.

2nd choice would be Cape Town.

[Agìkūyū Women & Men @AgikuyuWomen]

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Wathoni from Wahinga (Mahinga is situated southwest of Kabukū, in Limuru, Kìambu County) , was a woman with mystical powers. Her Ūgo, was one of midwifery. She was a renowned midwife, in days where there were no hospitals. She was also a stomach masseuse.

[Elias Mwangi @mwasballs]

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[Citizen TV Kenya @citizentvkenya]

Made in Kenya:

Anthony Muthungu founded TotoSci in 2020. TotoSci manufactures USB cables. Company has since doubled production to 2000 USB cables per day

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[J. C. Okechukwu @jcokechukwu]

BREAKING: Russian Military of Defense Says The US Has Relocated Ukrainian Bio-Labs to Africa and Are Planning to Release Avian Flu (a bioweapon) To Start Another Pandemic, and Blame It On Putin. #FalseFlagOperation Everyone should see this.

He said the U.S. bioweapon operations was relocated due to Russia’s liberation of the labs in Ukraine. Kirillov alleges that Biden-owned Metabiota and other intermediary NGOs are running cover for the U.S. State Department and DoD, posing as humanitarian organizations to conceal their true objective of pathogen production for Big Pharma.

Kirillov also pointed out that Biden-owned Metabiota, has been forced to stop operating in many African countries due to awareness of their nefarious biological weapon activities and agenda.

Does anyone remember my post from just few a days ago about how Russia stepped into Ukraine and their first target was what they alleged as U.S. -funded Biological weapons labs? Bio-labs are the labs in which they manufacture all these diseases/viruses that they unleash on humanity to trigger pandemics. It is also in these labs that they manufacture these toxic and dangerous GMO seeds and chemicals that are aimed at the mass culling of human population, as Bill from hell had always wished. I reported on this Russian lab destruction in Ukraine vigorously while the destruction was ongoing, two years ago. Now, they’ve relocated them to Africa as part of their mass depopulation agenda against Africans. There’s just no room for carelessness and sleepiness anymore. The enemy is no longer at our doorstep. The enemy is in the building and we must mass sensitize in order to mass expel these parasites from hell. #RejectGinanceBill2024 #SayNoToGMO #SayNoToBillGatesGMO #SayNoToBioLabsinAfrica

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[Elias Mwangi @mwasballs]

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[Elias Mwangi @mwasballs]

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Congratulations Malkia Strikers, the winners of the 2023 Africa Women's Volleyball Championship.

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[Willice Ochieng @WilliceOchieng1]

NEVER BE A RECKLESS OPPORTUNIST

If you are a Wafula or Nafula, an Ochieng' or Achieng', a Njoroge or Njeri, a Kiprono or Cherono, a Nyakundi or Nyaboke, or from any other tribe, never insult your COMMUNITY or KENYANS for favours.

One time you might need them to make you great.

[Matirî Ngemi @MatiriNgemi]

CULTURE AND COLONIZATION

In less than 2 minutes, Dr Wangarî Maathai gives compels us to stop using the word TRIBE when we speak about ourselves.

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