♫ Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer – Annual Redux ♫ | Filosofa’s Word

There are two versions to this song … well, actually several … but I offer both the cartoon version and the … um … drunken grandma version … and now the Irish Rovers’ version …

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
Elmo & Patsy

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Brain Rot Just Might Scare You Too 🧠 | From Behind the Pen

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Just when I think I’ve heard it all, I haven’t, not by a long shot! Why should I be surprised?

I’ve seen evidence where some people I’ve noticed who I thought had a relatively high scale of intelligence seem like they are victims of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers!” While I have no intelligent reason for such a drastic change, I now have a new word that was announced as the Oxford Word of the Year for 2024: ‘brain rot’. Yep, the Oxford University Press declared ‘brain rot’ as the definitive Word of the Year for 2024.

‘Brain rot’ is defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging. As an abstract concept, brain rot is something we’re all vaguely aware of and we’ve witnessed how technology can be used to destroy our grey matter.

According to an article found in the December 9, 2024 edition of The Guardian:

…an abundance of academic research from institutions including Harvard Medical School, the University of Oxford, and King’s College London found evidence that the internet is shrinking our grey matter, shortening attention spans, weakening memory, and distorting our cognitive processes. The areas of the brain found to be affected included “attentional capacities, as the constantly evolving stream of online information encourages our divided attention across multiple media sources”, “memory processes” and “social cognition”.

Do we have a brain-rotting pandemic going on? Sometimes, it sure seems like it!

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