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Multitasking is bad for you

January 27, 2008 | 3:47 pm

Wow… I thought multitasking would make you sharper. It seems that it just screws the regions of the brain required for higher-level thinking and learning. See this article from The Atlantic. Haha! They give a great example of multitasking… and I quote:

While the president continued talking on the phone (Ms. Lewinsky understood that the caller was a Member of Congress or a Senator), she performed oral sex on him.

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