Kevin S. ‘Whis’ Whisman

@pacificjimmy “Petty Officer XXX, When the shit hits the fan, I don’t need someone who knows how to clean up the shit, I need someone who knows how to turn off the fan.”

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Kevin S. ‘Whis’ Whisman @TKORuns

19 days ago

If we are brave enough, often enough. We will fall. Fall. Get up and continue. You are needed.

Kevin S. ‘Whis’ Whisman @TKORuns

22 days ago

@McCainJack Damn was hoping to get a JSM4 coin!

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Kevin S. ‘Whis’ Whisman @TKORuns

22 days ago

@McCainJack "There's going to be sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, chips, dips, chains, whips... Your basic high school orgy."

Kevin S. ‘Whis’ Whisman @TKORuns

22 days ago

@ScottStras They would just end up being to sport leagues football and basketball…

Kevin S. ‘Whis’ Whisman @TKORuns

23 days ago

@ScottStras Unwatchable

Kevin S. ‘Whis’ Whisman @TKORuns

23 days ago

@MikeyDiMercurio Lies!

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Cleveland Sports Talk

@CLEsportsTalk

23 days ago

1992: Larry Nance Sr. part of Cavs team going to ECF 2026: Larry Nance Jr. part of Cavs team going to ECF The last two non-LeBron ECF teams...BOTH HAD A LARRY NANCE.

CLEsportsTalk's tweet photo. 1992: Larry Nance Sr. part of Cavs team going to ECF
2026: Larry Nance Jr. part of Cavs team going to ECF

The last two non-LeBron ECF teams...BOTH HAD A LARRY NANCE. https://t.co/c64dri4dmB

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Ihtesham Ali

@ihtesham2005

24 days ago

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.

ihtesham2005's tweet photo. 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.

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Kevin S. ‘Whis’ Whisman @TKORuns

26 days ago

@Supersonic_Red Armed Forces day…Tolling of the bell for the 65 subs lost since 1900… the Chesapeake Base of the Sub Vets

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Joseph Courtemanche #freeinflorida

@joecourtemanche

27 days ago

Analogy time: You spend months shopping for a new car, and you're thrilled to show it off. After a week you notice the dealer punctured the upholstery in the back, and your spouse installed the ugliest seat covers ever while you were at work. Now, after years of gritting your teeth, you rebuild the car from the chassis up. Install all the gauges you want and put in leather seats. That, my friends, is what @MikeyDiMercurio did with the help of @Supersonic_Red and yours truly in rewriting, and fixing, VOYAGE OF THE DEVILFISH: TITANIUM COFFIN THE AUTHORS EDITION. It is magnificent. Buy the advanced copy and experience it the way it was always meant to be before the zebra seat covers and punctured upholstery the publisher put in. https://t.co/gcsqrL0ICP

Kevin S. ‘Whis’ Whisman @TKORuns

27 days ago

Friday quote… “What we know is a drop; what we don’t know is an ocean.” - Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet)

Kevin S. ‘Whis’ Whisman @TKORuns

27 days ago

@USNA86 🩴

Kevin S. ‘Whis’ Whisman @TKORuns

27 days ago

@USNA86 @navybirddog 🩴

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