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It's Wednesday, November 9th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. Could the ballpoint pen be just as responsible for the death of cursive handwriting as the computer? Plus, lab-grown blood has been injected into two patients in a world-first clinical trial.

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There's a whole world of things we used to know that we no longer do because technology has made them largely irrelevant or enabled us to look them up so quickly we don't need to keep them in our brains.

For example, I used to know all my friends and relatives phone numbers.

I used to be able to drive to a new place without a GPS. I used to be

able to convert temperatures and measurements from metric to imperial in my head. And I used to know what

my friend's handwriting looked like. I mean, think about that last one. Do you know what the

handwriting of all of your friends looks like? I know several of them, you know,

folks that I exchange holiday cards with mostly, but just like I can sometimes go years knowing

a person before I ever get their email address, I'm not actually positive what sort of style

and eccentricities many of my close friends' handwriting takes on. This was a key revelation of

English novelist Philip Hensher in his 2013 nonfiction book, The Missing Inc, as recounted in a

2015 Atlantic article that I somehow stumbled upon the other day. And that article, written by

Canadian public school teacher and writer Josh Giesbrecht,

makes the argument that it wasn't computers or laziness that killed cursive and which

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