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EVERYWHERE. COMFORTABLY.

[Lyn🦋 @_ayandamay]

I overheard a girl saying yesterday ‘worrying is such a terrible use of your imagination’ … and I audibly gasped.

[Alphx Elite @Alphx_Elite]

Y ese momento el oso sintió el verdadero terror jajajaja

[Niyetsel @niyetsel]

Two years from now, at this very moment, you will be standing in the places you once dreamed of.

Send this to yourself.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This unique cafe in Vietnam lets diners sit amongst pools of koi carp as they eat their meals.

The King Koi Coffee Garden in in Ho Chi Minh has tables and chairs submerged into a lake where 3,000 koi swim in and among customers.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

This is free advice from an expensive psychologist. If you’re an anxious person, do everything for fun. Go to a job interview for fun. Submit documents for fun. Start a blog for fun. Anxiety feeds on importance. Don’t make everything a matter of life and death.

[𝟮𝟭.🛸 @Big_tagg]

THIS IS TAKING ME OUT SO BAD😭😭

[Senator Obi @IykeNwaObi]

Someone should please tell her that she is the coolest mum ever.

[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.

[Eminent_minds @minds_eminent]

According to Neuroscience, if you repeat these 3 phrases each morning, you will start to rewire your brain to become more positive, confident, and grateful

1. “Show me how good today gets.”
This activates your brain’s R.A.S to notice more opportunities.

2. “I’m grateful for…”
Gratitude increases dopamine shifting your nervous system into a more regulated, positive state.

3. “I can handle anything that comes my way today.”
This builds self efficacy and reduces threat response to your brain.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

"Lahaina Noon," is a trippy phenomenon that happens twice a year in Hawaii, where all objects lose their shadows

It begins in Hawaii TODAY,

starting on the Big Island

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

i accidentally manifested an entire life shift once because i started acting like the universe was obsessed with me instead of acting abandoned by reality

highly recommend btw

[ʚଓ @hotgirlempress]

when anyone speaks my name i receive more luxury, prosperity, beauty, & divine love. my name expands my blessings & strengthens my aura

[🏖️ @plugdontmiss]

Tryna be like this with my boo

[Alex Oak @alexoakdev]

Someone built a fitness app using the same psychological mechanics as gambling

This might work better than every normal fitness app 😭😭

You bet money on whether you’ll hit 10,000 steps today

If you fail, you lose your money

If you succeed, you split the money from everyone who didn’t

So disciplined people literally profit off lazy people

Most fitness apps try motivating you with streaks and notifications

This one motivates you with financial fear

Imagine realizing at 11:52pm you still need 1,700 more steps or you lose $30

Entire friend groups would be outside walking laps around their neighborhood before midnight trying not to lose their steppa challenge

It sounds stupid but this would probably motivate people better than any other fitness product

Would you use this yourself?

[Isabel🌻 @isabelunraveled]

I keep thinking about this! It’s just wonderful

[faby jurídico modern family @fabyollaverass]

sou alucinada na jimmy choo, essa marca AMA as mulheres 🥹

[BOSS @thebeautyofsaas]

it is an unwritten rule of life that after every prolonged period of hardship and uncertainty, there is going to be a period when you are going to achieve quantum leaps across multiple areas of your life. the only requirement is that you do not give up on yourself

[Mistress Dividend @mistressdivy]

Everyone shut up I just learned a new word:

Eremition
(eh-ruh-mish-un)
The act of gradually fading from the lives of others, not out of malice, but a desire for solitude or renewal.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Located mainly in Tajikistan, the Pamir Plateau is known as the "Roof of the World."

It looks like something straight out of Inception