Feel like too much low-quality screen time is making you … dumber? From focusing on your environment to ‘washing’ your brain, experts share tips on how to sharpen up and keep your mind fighting fit ...

A friend reminded me of a four-word letter to The Irish Times Rosenstock wrote in 2007, when US troops were pouring into Iraq ...

Every night, I curl up in bed with a good book, ready to unwind from a day’s worth of brain-scrambling classes, 20-minute hikes to and from North Campus and enough homework to prematurely gray my hair ...

The term brain rot was voted Oxford University Press’ word of the year in 2024, an unusual honor for a phrase that started as online slang. OUP defines it as the supposed deterioration of a person’s ...

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Many of us have felt it, and now it’s official: “brain rot” is the Oxford dictionaries’ word of the year. Oxford University Press said Monday that the evocative phrase “gained new prominence in 2024,” ...

The major finding in these studies is the decline in sustained attention. Frequent consumption of short form videos leads to ...

“What is 67?” actress Brenna D'Amico asked her 2.4 million Instagram followers on Thursday, Nov. 13. “What are these Italian brain-rot words that I can't even pronounce? Am I old? What am I not ...