What the actual science says about “brain rot”
I love the channel Howtown on YouTube. They do an excellent job wading through academic research on trendy topics. This piece on “Brain Rot” is especially apt for the 2020s.
I love the channel Howtown on YouTube. They do an excellent job wading through academic research on trendy topics. This piece on “Brain Rot” is especially apt for the 2020s.
Click by Ori and Rom Brafman is a fun, fast little pop science book about why some relationships just…click. Why do some people go from strangers to fast friends in an afternoon while others stay awkward acquaintances for years?
The book argues that our brains weren’t designed for the modern world. We evolved in an environment of scarcity, where pleasure was rare and hard to come by. Now we live in what Lembke calls a “dopamine tsunami” – unlimited access to anything that feels good, all the time, right at our fingertips.
Transcript Those deep-rooted beliefs about who we are and how we perceive ourselves in the world and where we place…
Gell-Mann amnesia is where we recognize that the media reports inaccurately on topics we know well, yet trust their expertise…
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