We participate in political memes to express our anxiety that whatever is coming next might be even more chaotic than what is ...

Research has shown that smartphone addiction causes major increases in brain activity, requiring the brain to work harder to ...

Latifah’s own comment on the night, though, was kind of iconic: “I’m actually quite happy.” We love a queen (or Queen, as the ...

But what if your old DVDs stop working? The New York Post reports “disc rot” has become a growing concern after Warner Bros. Home Entertainment confirmed many of WB’s DVDs manufactured ...

"It just seems like a lot of brain rot and there's not a lot of substance to it," said 16-year-old Phoebe. Globally, reality TV — known in the industry as "unscripted content" — made up about ...

But reality, as Padraic X. Scanlan shows in “Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine,” is much more complex, and much more terrifying, for the economic and environmental factors that ...

“For brands in Australia, culture has become something to hijack not create. But as demonstrated by ‘brain rot’, 2024’s word of the year, people are ready for movements of change, not moments. They ...

I could simply outsource the work, keep up appearances in society, and let my brain rot in peace. The potential side effects of the extended mind are difficult to study. Our reliance on digital ...

The term “brain rot” has even surfaced, referring to the cognitive decline and diminishing attention span caused by the overstimulation of digital media. Research has suggested that spending ...

Its effect on the potato gives “Rot,” a vigorous and engaging new study of the Irish famine by the historian Padraic X. Scanlan, its title. The blight began to infect the crop across much of ...

Lady Gaga and Bowen Yang have an important message for those suffering from brain rot: stop using all the slang you learned from TikTok. During a sketch on SNL, the two stop their friend from saying ...