This Dancing Heart 💙🌊

Cumbercollective. Hiddleston fan. Benophie/TomZaw/TomZen defender. Originator of the phrase 'glorious crooked mouth'. MGoode, AGarfield, JDornan too.

[This Dancing Heart 💙🌊 @thisdancinghart]

Well that was something to wake up to this morning. Weird that I even came here today when I’m rarely on this app.

[Colton @ColtonOgburn]

Look, the rule is that a living person can't be printed on our currency. So if Trump wants his face on the $250 bill in time for our 250th anniversary, he's got a tough choice to make in a short amount of time.

[This Dancing Heart 💙🌊 @thisdancinghart]

Sharing this everywhere I can, even practically dormant accounts.

[💜Cat-OT7💜⊙⊝⊜ @alwaysborahae]

Where’s the lie? 😂

[This Dancing Heart 💙🌊 @thisdancinghart]

All of this.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

[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.

[This Dancing Heart 💙🌊 @thisdancinghart]

@Insanely_Smart I used Denon because I was fancy and liked the rounded edges of the boxes.

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

I think this is my favorite Twitter news summary of all time

[This Dancing Heart 💙🌊 @thisdancinghart]

@CocoGauff Some people don’t understand what deleting an app from your phone means. Anyway, come to Threads, you’ll like it there.

[Brunette Bohemian @Jane_Doe82]

We see pictures of the beautiful gift we’ve been given from outerspace, and we’re down here nuking it with bombs. How undeserving we are

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I’ve never forgotten this, or trickle down economics. He and the GOP set us back generations.

[Nora | CEO of Mega Evolution 👾 @norainthefuture]

important reminder: if you are still engaging with the hp franchise you are hurting trans people. separate the art from the artist does not apply when the artist does this. putting nostalgia above human rights is a display of weak character. 🏳️‍⚧️

[This Dancing Heart 💙🌊 @thisdancinghart]

@SuellaBraverman You are unbelievably stupid.

[This Dancing Heart 💙🌊 @thisdancinghart]

Trump is lying about the number of injured troops.

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

BREAKING:

🇮🇷🇺🇸 The New York Times has confirmed that most of the 13 US bases in the Middle East have been destroyed and empty.

Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable, with the ones in Kuwait, which is next door to Iran, suffering perhaps the most damage, according to the NYT.

[Reuters Energy and Commodities @ReutersCommods]

Exclusive: US ramps up fuel exports to Cuba's private sector https://t.co/WBSNoK1hws

[This Dancing Heart 💙🌊 @thisdancinghart]

All of this.

[The Dread duck Pirate Mark Brooks 𓅊 @MarkBrooksArt]

Here’s the thing. We are going to HATE the next democratic president. Because they’re going to have to spend 4 years fixing our incredibly broken govt while figuring out how to restore our economy while mending nearly all our international relationships. All while addressing a country that’s basically insolvent. We got pilfered by the current administration so there’s entire systems that got wiped out while contractors and corporations got bloated off our tax dollars via special favors for and from Trump. This is going to mean higher taxes across the board and massive sacrifices just to get us back to neutral. Trump stole and gave away billions while wrecking every institution he could get his hands on. It’s going to hurt to fix them all and regain what we lost. This will all be while a restored justice dept prosecutes dozens of people in the Trump administration for massive corruption. It’s going to get very messy. I honestly don’t know how they’ll be able to do it and be able to win a second term. The majority of the country won’t understand why it’s necessary for their/our future.

[Simon Miln @sequi_simon]

I remember listening to my father as he read Hans Christian Andersen's folktale "The Emperor's New Clothes" to me, and as a child I wondered how people could be so stupid? And now I know. The United States of America, arguably one of the greatest countries in the world, is being led by an absolute buffoon and there are millions of people who are still taking the man seriously. It's quite incredible.

[This Dancing Heart 💙🌊 @thisdancinghart]

24601

[Kobi @UTDKobi]

You can’t post random numbers and expect people to understand it

[Tired Peasant @HorrorGorl]

When the American empire finally collapses, historians won't be stunned by the greed of the elite; they'll be stunned by the loyalty of the poor.

[This Dancing Heart 💙🌊 @thisdancinghart]

@AmyMcGrathKY Amy, you should have made it more obvious that you blame Trump for this.

[This Dancing Heart 💙🌊 @thisdancinghart]

@RJAitkenhead @_nomadic_soul Who are they sleeping with? Slutty men.