My accident Dec. 1 meant that my intended column on the Oxford Word of the Year had to be postponed. I'm still recovering ...

Licensed psychologist Shawn Guiling said studies have been done on the human brain’s ability to recall important information ...

Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year is “polarization” which was heard around the world during this year’s heated election ...

“Brain rot” is the effect of too much information. Doomscrolling is one of the symptoms. According to The Guardian, this ...

In 2003, the publisher of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary began bestowing a crown. On Dec. 9, 2024, it selected “polarization” as its word of the year, which joins a list of 2024 winners from other ...

Oxford defines brain rot as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the ...

I’m perplexed. Somewhere in the mass of gray matter between the ears that don’t work like they once did, there’s a battle of sorts going on. “Brain rot” or “slop?” For those who might be unaware, the ...

LONDON (AP) — Many of us have felt it, and now it’s official: “brain rot” is the Oxford dictionaries’ word of the year. Oxford University Press said Monday (Dec. 2, 2024) that the evocative phrase ...

Once an internet cause célèbre, this year lots of folks turned cold on Spotify Wrapped. TikTok’s year in review also felt unsurprising. Maybe our platforms know less about us than we think.

An hour has passed, and you've been sucked into a vortex of videos and articles. We are not doomed to brain rot. Can we use ...

Oxford University Press names "brain rot" as its 2024 word of the year in a nod to modern scrolling habits. "The term has ...

Today, Walden Pond, outside of Boston, is one of the surest places one can visit to alleviate brain rot. You can swim in the ...