Ron RC

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[Ron RC @ronrc3]

Excellent thread...

[Jim O'Shaughnessy @jposhaughnessy]

1/ If you can change your focus, you can change your future.
Don’t spend a minute worrying about something that you can’t control. If something can’t be changed by you taking direct action, put it out of your mind. Today’s society is overrun with useless distractions

[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.

[Ron RC @ronrc3]

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[modest proposal @modestproposal1]

This should go over well

[Ron RC @ronrc3]

Nailed it!...

[Kay Burley @KayBurley]

UK #inflation has fallen to 2.3%, but what does that actually mean for our cost of living?

@EdConwaySky took to his famous charts to explain

#KayBurley SS

[Kay Burley @KayBurley]

UK #inflation has fallen to 2.3%, but what does that actually mean for our cost of living?

@EdConwaySky took to his famous charts to explain

#KayBurley SS

[James Nokise @JamesNokise]

I’m not quite sure how to explain what’s happened tonight, because it’s still happening - but here goes…

At 4:40pm I jumped on a train from London to Edinburgh..

It was comfy, it was quiet

In hindsight, too good to last…

[Ron RC @ronrc3]

@lufthansa It has been over a year with no response. So much for resting assured that your colleagues will respond to me.

[Ron RC @ronrc3]

@lufthansa awaiting response from Customer Relations for 30 days on LH9655 & LH986 on 8-Jul-22 and LH1003 & LH9654 on 11-Jul-22
Booking confirmation: MJ9J8O, Ticket number: 2202478179763. No one responds to phone calls in DE and NL. This is how you treat your customers?

[Ron RC @ronrc3]

Wonderfully informative tweet…

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Why does Argentina wear a pale blue and white football kit?

It's a story that involves the Byzantine Empire, Renaissance painters, Napoleon, and a revolution...

[Ron RC @ronrc3]

😂

[Sean @shornKOOMINS]

Remember when Coolio did a gig in Preston, ran into a group of random students outside afterwards and went back to their place, where he made Caprese Salad, Chicken á la Daaaamn and Peach Crumble, and they jammed Gangster's Paradise. What a guy.

[Ron RC @ronrc3]

Spare a thought for the pensioners…

[Ron RC @ronrc3]

😂

[Karthik Sankaran @RajaKorman]

@M_PaulMcNamara @Copernicus2013 So it’s not a real EM. It’s a Kwasi EM.

[Ron RC @ronrc3]

@lufthansa How much time do you need? It’s been 33 days and counting. There hasn’t been any acknowledgment of my email or any feedback on what course of action you’re going to take or refunds you owe me. This is utterly lamentable customer service.

[Ron RC @ronrc3]

@ignaciobernal @lufthansa @Lufthansa_DE Awaiting 30 days for useful response without avail myself @lufthansa @Lufthansa_DE

[Ron RC @ronrc3]

@lufthansa awaiting response for 30 days on LH9655 & LH986 on 8-Jul-22 and LH1003 & LH9654 on 11-Jul-22; Booking confirmation: MJ9J8O, Ticket number: 2202478179763. No response from personnel in NL, DE to calls and emails. This is how you treat your customers?

[Ron RC @ronrc3]

@TonyParsonsUK @BBCNews The same universe where we have millions of eye balls on ‘Celebrity’ Big Brother’. Fox News-ification of the Beeb…😩

[Otavio (Tavi) Costa @TaviCosta]

I don’t care if you think this insanity is being caused by shareholder or political pressure:

Resource companies are almost returning more capital to their shareholders than investing in their own businesses.

This is not a sign of a commodities cycle at its peak. Period.

[Ron RC @ronrc3]

@zav999 @TheStalwart @tracyalloway Excellent thread @zav999. Reminds me of lazy arguments in some quarters that ARS was a ‘no brainer’ when depo rates were hiked to 35%. Peeps underestimate local mindset of capital preservation due to all that you state above, esp after the continued NAV hit the last few years