You must share the message with everyone — let them know your suffering. Tell them how dear and marvelous our freedom truly ...

Canadian researcher Masoud Kianpour warns that online brain rot is undermining peoples’ storytelling skills. The Toronto Metropolitan University Senior Research Fellow observed that more folks spend ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

The term "brain rot" is having its moment in the sun. First written down by Henry David Thoreau in 1854, brain rot became the Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year in 2024. While this isn’t a ...

The Digital Trap: How Entertainment Hijacks Your Brain The entertainment industry thrives on capturing your attention. TV series are designed with cliffhangers and plot twists to keep you clicking ...

You love from the depths of your ventral tegmental area, your hypothalamus, your nucleus accumbens, and other vital areas of the brain. In the last two decades ... is the culprit behind many an ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

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Want to do more? It turns out there are additional actions to boost your brain’s functioning and protect it from decline. Experts say establishing good habits as young as possible — even in ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin ... It’s hard to remember how my brain worked before it, but I imagine that even without the technology ...