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create your own adventure.

[The Associated Press @AP]

Marisa Mender-Franklin dreamed of growing flowers and opening her own flower shop, but there was one problem: she had no land.

So she turned to her neighbors in Memphis, Tennessee, and now she's transformed crowdsourced land into urban flower farms.

[Michael Boegl @michaelboegl]

NYC on 35mm film 🎞️

[Matias Alonso Revelli @matialonsor]

Cuatro fotos que saqué en Riomaggiore

[Michael Boegl @michaelboegl]

Lake Como on 35mm film 🎞️

[Fandom @getFANDOM]

🕷️ Spider-Man (2002) 🕷️

35mm Open Gate vs. Blu-Ray Home Release

Which do you think looks better?

[Matias Alonso Revelli @matialonsor]

Cuatro fotos que saqué en Venecia

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

For more than 20 years, Norwegian neuroscientist Audrey van der Meer has investigated how handwriting shapes the human brain.

In a landmark 2024 study published in Frontiers in Psychology, her team used high-density EEG caps to monitor brain activity in students while they either wrote by hand with a digital pen or typed on a keyboard.

The difference was dramatic. Handwriting produced a powerful, synchronized burst of neural activity across widespread regions of the brain, linking areas involved in memory formation, sensory processing, and deep learning. In contrast, typing the exact same content caused this rich cognitive network to largely shut down. Because typing uses repetitive, uniform keystrokes, it demands little spatial or cognitive effort, leaving key learning centers quiet and disengaged.

These neurological differences have a direct effect on how we process and remember information. Earlier research by Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer at Princeton University reached similar conclusions. Students who took notes by hand consistently outperformed those using laptops on conceptual understanding tests. Handwriting forces active listening, critical thinking, and real-time summarization, while typing often leads to verbatim transcription with minimal processing.

Our brains function as part of an embodied biological system. Replacing rich physical actions with effortless digital keystrokes may deliver short-term convenience, but it comes at the expense of deeper cognitive engagement.

The solution is simple and timeless: pick up a pen.

[Van der Meer, A. L. H., et al. (2024). Handwriting versus typing: A neurophysiological comparison of brain activity during learning. Frontiers in Psychology, 15. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1234567]

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

New teaser for the stop-motion animation work on LAIKA's ‘WILDWOOD’.

“At a time where entire worlds can be built with a click of a mouse & videos generated from a prompt, choosing to make a stop motion film feels like a quiet act of rebellion.”

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Twenty-five years ago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology made a bold move that most universities would never dare.

Instead of locking its world-class course materials behind campus walls, MIT decided to put nearly its entire curriculum online, completely free for anyone with an internet connection.

That decision gave birth to MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW).

What began as a bold experiment in 2001 has become one of the most significant educational initiatives in history.

Today, OCW provides materials from more than 2,500 undergraduate and graduate courses across virtually every discipline: physics, engineering, artificial intelligence, economics, biology, mathematics, computer science, and many more.

Anyone can access lecture notes, problem sets, exams, syllabi, and a growing library of video lectures, with no tuition, no application, and no account required.

According to MIT, more than 500 million people worldwide have used these resources over the past 25 years.

The impact has been profound. Students use it to ace exams, explore new fields, and launch careers. Educators around the globe integrate the materials into their own teaching. Many learners credit OCW with helping them pass professional certifications and unlock new opportunities.

Beyond its direct benefits, OpenCourseWare helped spark the global open education movement, inspiring dozens of other universities to share their knowledge freely online.

Even more impressive: the project was originally planned as a 10-year initiative. A quarter-century later, it's still expanding.

MIT now aims to reach 1 billion learners in the coming decade, while enhancing the experience with powerful new AI-powered learning tools.

[Complex @Complex]

Back in 2003, Madame Tussauds unveiled a 15 foot, 1.5 ton Hulk statue for the film’s UK release.

The thing was so massive they had to crane it through the roof. Movie marketing really used to go all out.

[📸: via/ GettyImages]

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This video shows British illustrator and amateur naturalist Jo Brown flipping through her mushroom-themed notebook, which contains detailed illustrations and descriptions of various mushrooms she has observed in the wilds of Devon.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

LANTERNS (2026) feels like Damon Lindelof having a proper playground with the Green Lantern mythos. The mystery, the grounded detective angle and the chemistry between Kyle Chandler & Aaron Pierre just work. This could be something really special.

[Poster Escape @PosterEscape]

Incredible posters for Spider-Man: Brand New Day by @MadeofAlex_

#SpiderManBrandNewDay

[MLB @MLB]

Max Muncy: @Dodgers legend 👏

[svsogarcia @susogarc]

#fujifilm

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Homer Simpson disappearing into a hedge in LEGO

[📹 Jason Allemann & Kristal / jkbrickworks]

[𝑨𝒓𝒕 🎨 @_ArtMuseum]

The Eclipse of the Sun in Venice, July 6, 1842, by Ippolito Caffi (1842)

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Parkour, a sport that involves jumping over railings, rolling on the ground and scaling walls, has a reputation for being for the young. But in Singapore, an instructor is using parkour to teach seniors strength, balance and how to fall safely.

[Cartoon Clips @CartoonVidio]

ai will never replace this non sense 😂