Is Brain Rot Real? Researchers Warn of Emerging Risks Tied to Short-Form Video
TikTok could be “unwiring” your brain, through sabotaging your ability to focus, achieve, build resilience and embrace overall greater health. New research is showing that heavy short-form video use trains your brain to favor speed and novelty, which weakens sustained focus and makes everyday tasks feel harder to finish. These undesirable effects are consistent across all ages and demographics, but younger and frequent user show the most negative impacts . . .
People Who Spent Most of Their Childhoods Outdoors are More likely to Develop These 9 Traits as Adults
A childhood spent in the great outdoors (including urban green spaces) shapes you in ways you might never have considered. Every scraped knee from climbing trees, every afternoon spent building forts, every moment you chose to explore rather than stay inside has left an invisible mark on who you’ve become. . . .
Family & FRIENDS: Dynamics of Resilience vs. Dismissal
While I entered the beautiful bliss of my Fall term coming to an end, I began to watch the hit 90’s TV series Friends . . . There’s a certain kind of comfort in knowing that somewhere, somehow, there’s a Friends episode for whatever you’re going through. And in the midst of research I found that this show was the layman’s terms of human psychology . . .