Two university students sit in the same lecture. Same professor, same material, equal intelligence, equal interest in the subject.
One brain is alive with coordinated fireworks, connections firing across every region. The other shows dim, scattered flickers, like isolated islands of activity.
So why the gap?
One is holding a pen over lined paper. The other has fingers hovering over a laptop keyboard.
That's it. That's the only difference.
This isn't nostalgia, and it isn't a story about the good old days. It's neuroscience. We live in the age of digital everything, where you can type from bed and store every note in the cloud. But what if the most powerful learning tool you own costs about 50 cents and fits in your pocket?
The pen, they say, is mightier than the sword. Nobody told you it might be mightier than the keyboard.
@BuzzPatterson Many Scots came to Charlestown Sunday to view the Bunker Hill Day Parade to celebrate the 251st anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill! The Scots visiting our little community were awesome, even commented on our local neighborhood social media pages how much they loved Boston.
No matter how much time passes, Jane Fonda is still the same despicable woman who posed next to North Vietnamese anti-aircraft guns that were used to target men like my husband.
We will always despise this traitorous b*tch.
Remember the Mississippi couple Billy and Virginia Blair who were murdered in their home by 17 year old Cordarius Hobbs last week?
Turns out his two older brothers Cortavious and Cortavion Hobbs were just caught after shooting a Covington County deputy during a traffic stop.
That deputy will never walk again.
Three brothers. One family. Two separate violent crimes in five days. This is the story the national media doesn't want to talk about?