“You’ll rot your brain!”
Ah, the refrain of moms and dads everywhere since television was invented. Even before we had the science and knowledge to realize there are consequences to staring at a screen all day, the zombie-eyed stares of children gawping at a box instinctively made adults uncomfortable.
Technology has come a long way since the mid-twentieth century, but so has scientific research – and now there’s some research to back up your mom’s claims that you’re “rotting your brain.”
A growing body of evidence supports the claim that consuming mind-numbing content – like we do while scrolling social media – literally reduces the physical…