It turns out that the slang "brain rot" may not be an inaccurate description of what's actually going on in our domes while we endlessly scroll TikTok. As El País reports, the growing body of scientific evidence over the past decade suggests that consuming mind-numbing content, from sources like algorithmically driven social media junk, to sensationalist news, can reduce the physical gray matter in your brains, along with other pernicious effects like shortened attention spans and weakened memory. In this sense, brain "rot" may literally be what's happening. The nefarious thing? These symptoms are often by design. Most notably, the […]