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Science and Nature

Paying Attention in the Digital Age

Join Joe Hanson as he explores curiosity and illuminates the science behind… well, everything.

Paying Attention in the Digital Age

Season 1 Episode 11 | 5m 20s

It seems like every week someone tells us how the internet and the digital age are overloading our brains. Sure, sometimes it feels like we're being fed more information than we can handle, that we're paying attention to the wrong things. Are we giving our brain a fair shot?

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