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Take a look! The digital age and the effects of digital devices on the brain

Today’s teens are digital natives— a generation of children that has grown up with video games, computers, touch-screen tablets, mobile phones and virtual reality. Even if their brains have adapted to this ultra-high-tech environment, they might still find it harder to resist impulsive behavior and to engage in free and independent thinking because of these digital devices. https://youtu.be/hgYbQJm9dSM  

The digital age and its effects on the brain

  TODAY’S teens are digital natives; a generation of children who have grown up with video games, computers, touch­screen tablets, mobile phones and virtual reality. While their brains have adapted to this ultra­high­tech environment, they might find it harder to resist impulsive behaviour and to engage in free and independent thinking. For millions of years the human brain has adapted to the challenge of writing, reading and more recently digital communication. Today this adaptation is […]

Britain gets new national daily

  London, United Kingdom (AFP)—One of Britain’s largest newspaper publishers announced Monday it was launching a new national daily, the first of its kind for 30 years, that will hit the newsstands just as another goes out of print. Trinity Mirror, which publishes the left-leaning Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror tabloids, said The New Day will go on sale on February 29 and offer an “upbeat, optimistic approach and will be politically neutral.” The announcement […]