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Comment Re: It a guidebook... (Score 2, Insightful) 177

Note-taking for memory/learning is much better handwritten. In fact, I never studied in college but on tests I could remember the layout and some of the contents of my handwritten notes without even seeing them a second time. That muscle movement is a second path to memory formation. So jotting something down you need later can actually help you not to need the written note later.

Today, I still keep track of my to-do lists on handwritten paper so that I can remember them.

For actual communication, I even hate texting because I want a full-size keyboard for typing. I am very slow at handwriting.

Comment Re:Infectocausation (Score 1) 49

The best word is probably just "autoimmune." In an arms race between molecular mimicry by pathogens and the immune system, it's inevitable that the immune system sometimes gets trained to defeat something that looks like a good cell and creates antibodies that target both the disease and the healthy cell.

It's likely that all autoimmune diseases are related to pathogen exposure/infection.

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