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There’s a name for that feeling you get after spending too long scrolling aimlessly, and Oxford University Press (OUP) has chosen it as its word for the year for 2024. “Brain rot” took the ...

According to Oxford University Press, which publishes the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the term “brain rot” is defined as the “supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or ...

And she has a penchant for simile. “An actor in film and TV is kind of like a blindfolded painter,” she says. “What artist would do all their paintings blindfolded and then let them hang ...