In "Superbloom," Nicholas Carr laments that we live in a state of uncontrollable sensory and communication overload.
Fried memes and hysterical gibberish suffocate the ... led the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary to name “brain rot” its word of the year. While brain rot can refer to harm, like ...
It’s fake dopamine, fleeting satisfaction, and a brain on autopilot ... be going on in that group chat? An overload of religious wisdom? Supposedly funny memes of people tripping on animals?
Welp, it was a good run, anyway. Since 2009, Don Diamont had thrilled us on the daily as Bill Spencer, arguably the most ...
‘Brain rot’—the 2024 Oxford Word of the Year—describes the potential mental decline caused by spending way too many hours on your phone or computer. If you’ve ever surfaced from an hours ...
Isaac Asimov saw this coming in his "I, Robot" stories that consider how an "aligned" robotic brain could still go wrong in ways that harm humans. One notable example, the story "Runaround," puts ...
Cave Diver memes mock the extreme, adrenaline-seeking spelunkers who willingly squeeze into impossibly tight spaces for the sake of adventure. While cave diving is already a high-risk hobby ...
Mar. 12, 2025 — Our brains use basic 'building blocks' of information to keep track of how people interact, enabling us to navigate complex social interactions, finds a new ... Robotics and ...