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It's Okay to Be Smart
Paying Attention in the Digital Age
Season 1
Episode 11
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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