The Mystique Reader

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💙 Reads YA, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Fantasy and Comics

[The Mystique Reader @mystique_reader]

I am so proud of these corner bookmarks. They turned out pretty fine. My sister chose this pattern and I did all folding thing.

If you like them you can buy these and more from Etsy shop

https://t.co/6ukZGmjpLu

#bookmarks
#bookmarks2019 #etsyshop #etsysale #books

RT please

[Diaryofadreamywriter @Briellefine]

“Money can't buy happiness” you've clearly never been a girl in a bookstore 📚✨

[🦢 @ZainabSana2622]

Men deleted one of our ORGANS from medical textbooks. Men DELETED one of our ORGANS from MEDICAL TEXTBOOKS THAT IT WAS ALREADY IN.
Because they considered our ORGAN "IRRELEVANT".
We are just now studying it and it is a hormone secreting part of the ovaries that may hold the key to treatment of menopause. The paper from last year is titled "Rediscovering the Rete Ovarii".
They. Deleted. Our. Organs. From. Medical.
Textbooks.

[Frank Scozzari @ScozzariFrank]

Book lovers never sleep alone.

[Aimun @bluemagicboxes]

When partition happened, men of all three religions took it upon themselves to humiliate the other group by ensuring that their women carried the sperm of the other's religion. Mass rapes took place. Carried out by men of all three religions against women of all three religions

[Whiskers and Blooms🌻 @agent_maverick_]

Men only start treating their wives better in old age when their parents are no more, kids are busy in there life and both siblings and friends don't have time for them

That's why Durreshahwar called him "Khudgharz"

[Whiskers and Blooms🌻 @agent_maverick_]

DurreShahwar portrayed this vicious cycle so beautifully

[Whiskers and Blooms🌻 @agent_maverick_]

How Talha🤡 would be leaving potential rishta's house after asking to check hymen

Aap k han check krwa dete hongay behn beti ka hymen. Hamare Pakistani father's will feed your shrunken grapes to gali k kuttay

[Whiskers and Blooms🌻 @agent_maverick_]

Typical red-pilled misogynist dodging accountability blaming only women are responsible for men's extra-marital affair.

Accountability is men's kyptonite. They dont even honor sanctity of marriage

[Booktasters @BookTasters]

Sometimes I forget if my memories are mine or just a book's hidden plot twist.

[Booktasters @BookTasters]

Do characters know they live when we sleep, plotting their mischief in our dreams? 📚✨

[Rogelio Galván ll 🇩🇪🇲🇽 @GalvanPero55796]

“A library is never complete. That's the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.”

-Catherynne M. Valente-

[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.

[Summie's write @RuthSummie]

There is healing in fiction that no self help book can replicate. Because sometimes you don't need advice. You just need to feel less alone in the experience.

[HerodotusWave @HerodotusWave]

A Vintage Bookish Floral Quilted Tote Bag.

[Whiskers and Blooms🌻 @agent_maverick_]

Remember when we used to finish 250 pages book in a day?

[Times of Karachi @TOKCityOfLights]

Beautiful view of Karachi’s sea during the rain.

#KarachiRain

[Zubair Ahmed Khan @ZubairKhanPK]

Magnum Ice Cream Company, Omore Fined Rs. 3.5 Crore Over Misleading Ads claiming there Frozen Desert as Ice Cream.

Unilever faced additional Rs. 20 million fine for claiming its frozen dessert was healthier than dairy-based ice cream.

Hico Icecream makers were the complainent

[Whiskers and Blooms🌻 @agent_maverick_]

Why women bring these DV issues here?