This summer, Gelly taught a course on brain rot in which students read “Walden,” Henry David Thoreau’s best-known work, to ...

Emma Lembke joined Instagram at age 12. Soon, she found herself “scrolling mindlessly for hours, addicted to gaining a certain number of likes, a certain number of comments.” She often wanted to stop ...

Texas medical schools are advancing AI-focused medical education while researchers warn of 'brain rot'—a cognitive decline risk from low-quality AI training data. UT Health San Antonio’s dual MD-MS ...

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Oxford crowned ‘brain rot’ as 2024’s word of the year. Here’s how to make it sparser in your vocabulary come 2025. The term “brain rot” has taken social media and cultural discourse by storm, ...

Oxford University Press has chosen "brain rot" as its word of the year. The word is defined as "supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as a result of ...

"Ballerina cappucccina" is not the latest trend in fancy lattes. Instead, it's a dainty ballerina with a giant coffee mug for a head, a character from a popular TikTok meme in the category of ...

The term "brain rot" refers to how low-quality internet content may slow your brain function. It's usually tied to watching specific types of content, usually nonsensical, embarrassing, or weird. But ...