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Is a “dopamine detox” real, or a misunderstanding of dopamine?
A behavioural technique with a catchy name became a neuroscience claim with no basis. The technique is fine. The neuroscience is not.
Does Office Noise Actually Make You Worse at Your Job?
Newer acoustics work found the disruption tracks meaning rather than volume, and that spatial separation does not reduce it. Both are new to this version.
Does Switching to a Dumbphone Actually Help?
The strongest evidence for cutting mobile internet is also the strongest evidence for how hard it is. Both halves matter for anyone considering a flip phone.
Does Answering Work Messages After Hours Actually Burn You Out?
A construct with a decade of research behind it, effect sizes one review calls meagre, and a mechanism that did not hold up in the authors’…
Is “Brain Rot” Real? What Short Videos Do to Attention
The word is a joke about itself. The correlations behind it are real, surprisingly large, almost all observational, and mostly from one continent.
Does Music Help You Concentrate?
The picture got more complicated in revision. Instrumental music is not simply harmless, and one meta-analysis of 47 studies points the other way entirely.
Is “AI Psychosis” Real? What the Evidence Shows
The term is a media label. The pattern behind it is now in case series and health records, concentrated in people who were already vulnerable, and…
Do Desk Stretches Help Neck and Shoulder Pain?
The reviews keep separating two things that get sold together, and only one of them has a body of evidence.
Can You Really “Regulate” Your Vagus Nerve?
The vagus nerve is real. The theory that turned it into a wellness category has been rejected by the scientists who study it, and its defenders…
Does Sugar Actually Give You an Energy Boost?
The finding is clear and the literature behind it was not. The paper’s own account of the studies it overturned explains why everyone believed the opposite.
Does Ashwagandha Actually Reduce Stress?
The most searched supplement of 2026 has more randomised trials than most, and the numbers they produce are part of the problem.
Do Standing Desks Actually Do Anything?
The original version said the effect probably fades. Newer evidence tracking full-day sitting to twelve months says otherwise. What still has not been shown is the…
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