"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 ...

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 human brain not only remembers who other people are, it also uses basic mathematical functions called basis functions to store information about how people interact — for example ...

“But as demonstrated by ‘brain rot', 2024's word of the year, people are ready for movements of change, not moments,” she said. “They seek human truths that leave us to stop and ...

"With words like 'brain rot,' 'slop,' and 'enshittification' being used to sum up 2024, the call for disruption and distinction has never been clearer. In 2025, the brands that play into human ...

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 ...

Feb. 11, 2025 — Scientists have developed an innovative method for growing brain tumors of individual patients in the laboratory that mimic the original structure and the molecular property of ...