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How to Know What's Real: How to Trust Your Brain Online

How to Start Over by The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

May 27, 202433:14Education

This episode explores the web’s effects on our brains and how narrative, repetition, and even a focus on replaying memories can muddy our ability to separate fact from fiction. How do we come to believe the things we do?...

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