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[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.

[Sulla @spqr_sulla]

Will never not be unsettling that after a certain depth you no longer float up but begin sinking.

[kumifigo @kumifigo]

Innalillahi, nampak seorang kakek setiap weekend dikirimi makanan oleh sang cucu, dan kurirnya selalu memfoto kakek saat menerima makanan. 10 Maret 2026 hari terakhir mengirimkan makanan untuk kakek, karena 13 Maret 2026 kakek meninggalkan dunia. Foto2nya kini menjadi kenangan.

[Paskal P @paskalp]

@Cheytax_1 @ApestorNyangkut Babe ruth effect

[Paskal P @paskalp]

@Iwaki_Nikkei Dear Iwaki san, I just came across your interview with guitarist Naoko Yamashita. May I have a look to the article? I can't access Nikkei. I am very interested in her story, especially around his late brother. Arigato

[SUGONDESE @sugondese6666]

bgst lady dimitrescu

[Alex 🇭🇲 @speedbird020]

Here is the first ever Qantas A380 landing into São Paulo International Airport, Brazil 🇧🇷 all the way from Sydney.
The return leg is rumoured to be by Bad Bunny, who has a couple of Sydney concert.

@analyticflying @Keg767
📹 - gui_aviation

[Erick Arrashy Rudianto @ErickRudianto]

Buku ini bagus banget karena selain ngasih nama ilmiah, namun juga bahasa Inggris dan bahasa Indonesia juga. Ini buku panduan utamaku buat identifikasi ikan, soalnya aku biasanya beli di pasar. Kalau aku ketemu sama penulis2nya, aku pengen salaman dan berterima kasih sebesar2nya.

[ソニーミュージック｜CLASSIC @sonyclassicaljp]

ギタリストの山下和仁さんが逝去されました　享年64

古典から現代まで幅広いレパートリーで名演を披露　中でも「展覧会の絵」「火の鳥」などオーケストラ曲のギター用編曲で楽器の表現力の可能性を拡大されました

心からご冥福をお祈りします

R. I. P. Kazuhito Yamashita 1961.3.25 – 2026.1.24

[Paskal P @paskalp]

RIP 🕊

[朝日新聞(asahi shimbun） @asahi]

クラシックギタリスト山下和仁さん死去、64歳　海外でも活躍 https://t.co/tljAu9gWgk

大規模なオーケストラ作品をクラシックギター1本で演奏し、高度な技術で新たな表現の可能性を切り開いた世界的クラシックギタリスト、山下和仁さんが24日、病気で死去した。64歳だった。

[Paskal P @paskalp]

@fukushinsanchan 福田様、大変衝撃的なニュースです。ご冥福をお祈りいたします。ご家族の皆様、お���気でお過ごしください ⚘️

2ヶ月前に日本を訪れ、彼の演奏を聴きたいと思っていましたが、もう演奏されていないようで、代わりにCDとレコードを購入しました。

彼は永遠に私たちと共にいます

[yudaryan @yudaryan17]

Living my dream of flying through clouds ☁️

[Paskal P @paskalp]

Ah mantapnya ☺️

[(っ'-')╮=͟͟͞🍋)`-' ) @bujangteyvat]

- Pembicara freelance : 50% × tarif PPh Pasal 17 × fee.
- Pakai PT non PKP : tarif PPh Pasal 23 (2%) × fee.

Nanti dari PT membayar gaji karyawan biasa aja. Bisa klaim PTKP, dech~ 🥰

[Paskal P @paskalp]

@ketertibanumum Ada risiko jadi stagflation ya? Btw program QE ini kayak jadi makin aktif ya sejak pandemi

[Paskal P @paskalp]

@ketertibanumum Ooo. Efek inflasi nya ini sebenernya jadi output yang diinginkan atau engga ya?

[Paskal P @paskalp]

RIP bang Aan 🕊

[Paskal P @paskalp]

@mafia_tahu @shadynorthy @celengz Nubie hu

[Paskal P @paskalp]

@ApestorNyangkut Kalo RE bank ditarik, bukannya malah bikin bahaya ke capital adequacy nya ya?
Kalaupun mau disehatkan lagi, Loan nya yang mesti dikecilin alias mengecilkan bisnis bank itu sendiri. Mungkinkah begitu?

[Paskal P @paskalp]

@ivandazhari @shadynorthy @mafia_tahu