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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
I began to occupy my house on the 4th of July,
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
A recent study led by neuroscientist Professor Kuniyoshi Sakai at the University of Tokyo published in March 2021 showed that subjects who recorded calendar event information on paper showed more brain activity than subjects who recorded the same information onto a smartphone when they attempted to recall details about that calendar information later. And they recalled/entered the information 25% faster when writing it by hand.
Why writing by hand is still the best way to retain information - Stack Overflow Blog
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Every religion had clues in it, for the faiths of men contained the hopes, loves, wishes, and lives of the people who had believed them.
Mistborn Trilogy
Brandon Sanderson
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
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