When I lived in the mountains, I heated with wood and didn’t have a garbage pickup service. That combination left me tempted to get rid of all sorts of unwanted items in the fire. But, however ...
Every few days, I open my inbox to an email from someone asking after an old article of mine that they can’t find. They’re graduate students, activists, teachers setting up their syllabus ...
The act of excessively soaking in negative news or social media posts, known as “doomscrolling” has led to growing amounts of “brain rot” over the past year, experts found. Oxford University Press ...
“Whoa, look that guy’s reading a book!” I exclaimed. According to the OUP, aka brain rot’s press agent, the term is defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or ...
“Brain rot” has been named Oxford’s 2024 Word of the Year. Brain rot describes cognitive and emotional issues tied to too much screen time. While brain rot isn’t a clinical ...