Perspective: The solution for ‘brain rot’ is on your bookshelf
On the official Oxford University Press website we learn that brain rot is “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental ...
What Is "Brain Rot" and How Do You Know If You Have It?
It takes more than a few rat memes to qualify for brain rot. According to healthy device management expert Don Grant, PhD, MA ...
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UF professor weighs in on Oxford’s word of the year: brain rot
The Oxford University Press has chosen its word of the year, one word that's been popularized on social media.
Why brain rot and bed rotting aren't all bad — and the reasons why Gen Z and millennials are so drawn to this form of escape
Oxford University Press’s word of 2024 was “ brain rot .” The year also gave us a flurry of TikToks documenting “bed rotting.
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Don’t rot your brain
Is it any surprise then that Oxford’s ‘Word of the Year 2024’ is ‘brain rot’? Chosen by the Oxford University Press, which publishes the Oxford English Dictionary, the phrase was defined ...
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What is brain rot? How modern life is turning our minds to mush
Brain rot, the colloquial term used to describe excessive consumption of low-quality online content, particularly short videos on social media, has become so mainstream that it was voted Oxford ...
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Polarizing Brain-Rot Enshittification
Dictionaries have selected enshittification, brain-rot and polarization as their 2024 Words of the Year. Each are depressingly apt reflections of the past 12 months. Roméo Dallaire’s latest ...
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Oxford University Press declares Brain Rot as the Word of the Year 2024
According to the OUP website, “Following a public vote in which more than 37,000 people had their say, we’re pleased to announce that the Oxford Word of the Year for 2024 is ‘brain rot’.
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They'd rather have dumbphones than brain rot
It is no wonder that "brain rot" was named Oxford's 2024 word of the year not long after "doomscrolling" won that same recognition in 2020. Respondents describe wanting to disconnect from the ...
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Can internet scrolling cause ‘brain rot’?
But could that be damaging our brains? Oxford’s word of the year for 2024 is “brain rot,” which refers to the feeling you get after spending long hours aimlessly scrolling through internet ...
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Understanding ‘Brain Rot’
Well, they have a term for that — ‘Brain Rot’ and after a shortlist of 6 words and 37,000 public votes, Oxford University Press has named it Word of the Year 2024. Oxford defines brain rot ...
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Health Watch | Brain Rot is Oxford Dictionary's 'Word of the Year' but what does it mean?
Dr. Syed Hussain from Trinity Health of New England explains what 'brain rot' really is, as well as discusses HPV testing preferred over pap smears. Trump-backed spending bill goes down in flames ...