Why Your Brain Feels Broken
Pandemic stress and multitasking can affect memory in a real way.
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Pandemic stress and multitasking can affect memory in a real way.
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Dear HR, there must be a grave misunderstanding here.
It all started with some tweets.
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It will fire 1 trillion watts of energy in 1 quadrillionth of a second.
It's strange to look back at a game as long-running as the original "The Legend of Zelda" and discover how many of the pillars on which one of the medium's most famous franchises stands were established by its first instalment.
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Big Pump Signal — a Telegram group with over 70,000 members — are manipulating stock markets and regular people like me.
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It's not me, it's you.
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Where there's a will, there's a way.
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Appointment codes designated for largely Black and Latino communities ended up getting spread among wealthier people.
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