​Why it is important not to forget handwriting ● Artificial photosynthesis, the key to the conquest of space ● Heterosexual romantic relationships are said to originate from same-sex relationships

Why it is important not to forget your handwriting

Handwriting became rare. You use it only occasionally, and then you realize, most of you do, that without practice you write by hand, as if you took classes I-IV by mail. That’s it, we live in the era of the keyboard, both portable and touch, and that’s how your texts and messages are delivered. For example, when have you ever written a letter by hand, dropped it in the mail and prayed it would get there?

Well, to conclude and write the keyboard into the history books, just last week a group of researchers from the University of Austin, USA, created a non-invasive device that can interpret your brain impulses and convert them into written text thanks to artificial intelligence. In fact, writers of the future won’t even have to pick up a pen or keyboard, they’ll just have to think and maybe talk about what they want to write.

The thing is, even if we do make it, you won’t have to be happy that your kids won’t have to go through the tough calligraphy lessons. In fact, it is necessary to do this, just as it is good not to forget your handwriting.

Handwriting is a great exercise for developing motor skills. Then it is extremely useful for improving memory. Think of the children you raised in school as a prime example. Or after you wrote them, you didn’t even need them, because you already had everything in your memory? In this sense, the learning process is closely related to the complexity of handwriting. The more you write, the easier it is to learn and remember.

Another piece of information that can come in handy at this time when you’re accumulating a lifetime of stress is that handwriting gives you a sense of well-being. Therefore, psychologists recommend writing only for yourself about what worries you. Also, letters are known to be therapeutic and feel-good, unless they come to you from ANAF or other bodies that look after your finances.

It can also be said that writing stimulates thinking. By the way, the faster and meaner you write, they say you are smarter, because your brain works faster than your hand can. See the case of doctors. Last but not least, you don’t need internet, electricity, batteries, keyboard, etc. to write by hand. All you need, old school, is a pencil, a sharpener and a piece of paper. Try it and you won’t regret it!

Artificial photosynthesis, the key to conquering space

Without photosynthesis, life on Earth would never have existed as we know it today. It is a process that began at least 2.3 billion years ago thanks to the evolution of microorganisms (eukaryotes), from which the winding history of the evolution of all modern life forms begins.

Thus, to hope to colonize other planets in our solar system, or even other solar systems, we must somehow transfer the process of photosynthesis there. On the International Space Station, for example, oxygen is produced through electrolysis, a process that uses electricity from solar panels to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. To ensure that the astronauts don’t leave with a tank of water behind them, the same system is used to convert carbon dioxide exhaled by SSI personnel into water and methane.

The idea is that said technology is ineffective when we’re talking about long-distance travel, permanent bases on the moon, Mars, or anywhere else we want to go. Basically, the electrolysis process consumes about a third of all the energy used at SSI.

A solution to these shortcomings was proposed by an Anglo-Swiss team of researchers in a study recently published in Nature Communications. The aforementioned scientists propose a device that replaces plant chlorophyll, which is responsible for capturing solar energy, with semiconductors that perform the same function. After all, the device proposed by the authors of the study is not only smaller than what exists at SSI, but also more efficient.

In short, it uses solar energy to either process carbon dioxide and produce oxygen (the atmosphere on Mars is 96% carbon dioxide), or it can get it directly from the lunar soil, the regolith, named after it. However, scientists admit, the project is only a draft on paper. But once implemented, it could have serious implications for what space colonization means. So to speak, in the absence of plants, we can use artificial photosynthesis to create an environment as close as possible to Earth.

Heterosexual romantic relationships are derived from same-sex relationships

Don’t get impatient, we were wide-eyed when we came across this study in the journal Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, but after reading it, our hearts turned. Although some question marks remain after reading.

In his work, the author, namely a researcher from the University of Austin, Texas, wants to say that friendship (emphasis on this term) between persons of the same sex has led over time to long-term relationships between the opposite sex.

The author came to this idea after studying the chimpanzees of Kibale National Park in Uganda for more than ten years. There he noted that these primates do not form heterosexual couples. On the contrary, the bonds between men are strong, lasting even more than ten years and involving complex emotional bonds.

From this observation, he suggests that there must be a relationship between friendships and relationships between same-sex characters and heterosexual couple relationships. For example, he points to the benefits of such relationships: reduced stress, attachment, a tendency to help the person next to you, etc.

Perhaps he is right, especially since this is the first study of its kind. Until now, all these behaviors and the possibility that they could lead to something much more complex have never been analyzed. On the other hand, that it is 100% certainty, even the author of the study cannot confirm this.

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