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Apr 2025
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Your Brain on Screens: Myths and Facts &...

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media
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You are familiar with the advice that you shouldn’t go grocery shopping when you are hungry because you will spend more money and buy more junk. However, that’s just a piece of story. Hunger and shopping are related in other ways. This episode begins by explaining how. https://phys.org/news/2015-03-hungry-people-food.html#google_vignette The idea that spen ... Show More
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