Humans are So Damn Cool

Humans get a bad rap for:

a) Warming the planet (don't worry, the planet will be just fine - we humans might not be)

b) Polluting the planet (the microbes that live on toxic sludge and radioactivity say 'Yum!' and might just evolve into the latest, kick-ass world-dominating life form)

c) A few thousand other things.

But humans are still pretty damn cool. If we survive long enough to grow up, we'll fix our mistakes, I have no doubt.

Here's a good example why HaSDC.

HA! Tricked ya into learning, ya lazy brain!

I seem to better retain a topic after I have jotted my own notes.

Is this because I wrote it down, or I'm seeing it in my own handwriting, thus personalizing it?

It would be an interesting test to have textbooks and instruction manuals customized into your own handwriting... There are web sites like this one who will turn your handwriting into a font for a nominal fee. Once you have the font on your PC, all you have to do is apply the font as your default.

Would your attention span for reading be increased by even a small percentage by having the text in your own handwriting? Or would this trick work only briefly, and then the bonus would diminish as your mind realized it was being bamboozled?
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