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Every Notification Hijacks Your Brain for Seven Seconds. The Science Explains Why.

A clever experiment reveals that each phone alert triggers a measurable cognitive disruption, and your pupils prove it's not just in your head.

Casey Cooper·April 1, 2026 at 9:07 PM UTC

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Ideas

Active Forgetting: Why Your Brain Deletes Memories on Purpose

Forgetting isn't a failure of memory. It's a deliberate neural process, powered by dopamine and fine-tuned by evolution, that keeps your brain functional.

Casey Cooper·February 11, 2026

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Ideas

Why We Overestimate Ourselves When AI Helps Us Think

New research reveals a troubling pattern: AI tools improve our performance while simultaneously making us believe we're even better than we actually are.

Casey Cooper·January 9, 2026

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