Idonia

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[Idonia @wendyebarrett]

@jon6034871 @officialsammyuk @ELsmurth5 Thank you. There are over 30 countries in Asia. One of them is Armenia. The Christian land of my ancestors. It is utterly insulting to me and millions of others to be lumped together with a clearly distinct group of perpetrators.

[Idonia @wendyebarrett]

@fem_mb I can't look at that baby's face without crying. Utterly monstrous.

[Idonia @wendyebarrett]

@fem_mb Yes, it's down to the judge, although I suppose he may consult other professionals and/or the Sentencing Council.

[Idonia @wendyebarrett]

Happy Birthday Kathy Burke.... with a special mention for @owenjonesjourno 😍//www.instagram.com/reel/DZhMCIYNGJL/?igsh=ZzZzcG1hNzExcDNr

[Idonia @wendyebarrett]

@BlackBondPtv We need him in our Parliaments. All of them.

[The Critic @TheCriticMag]

As Dartmoor's ponies face an extinction event thank to a government Quango, @JPBWFarm makes his Critic debut to argue for their protection.

https://t.co/MkL4AaWH5Q

[Idonia @wendyebarrett]

@PeterBleksley So the girls and women who've been traumatised are putting men who can't control themselves first?

[Idonia @wendyebarrett]

@Martina @ChrissieEvert You were both a big part of my teenage years, I really admired you and loved to watch you play....Superstars 💖💕💖

[Idonia @wendyebarrett]

@JournalismSEEN @Glinner @PaulKnaggs So this only affects a certain "class" of women?

[Idonia @wendyebarrett]

@FruellaDeBrille I'm not sure which "woman" you mean, but nevertheless how stunning and brave "she" is!

[Idonia @wendyebarrett]

@WingsScotland Has anyone looked at his spending behaviour before this started?

[Idonia @wendyebarrett]

@iiwasinthee212 Neon

[Idonia @wendyebarrett]

@HollyGrayle Ah yes. The Ottoman Empire was very aware of the different ethnicities within it. They slaughtered them with impunity.

[Idonia @wendyebarrett]

@jo_bartosch I think we need to check your makeup bag.

[Idonia @wendyebarrett]

@MaxiMumMother @DogLoverOfPI @marksandspencer There's no excuse for rudeness and disrespect.

[Idonia @wendyebarrett]

@Jebadoo2 A bad boy did it and ran away.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

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.

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.

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.

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.

[Idonia @wendyebarrett]

@OldRoberts953 @Fontybits1 Gosh! So sad. In myriad ways.

[Idonia @wendyebarrett]

@London_W4 Thalassophobia. Your phone needs serious therapy.