Study: Multimedia Multitasking May Be Shrinking Human Brains

An anonymous reader writes It seems that switching between laptop, smart phone and tablet may be shrinking our brains and leaving us prone to higher levels of anxiety and stress reports new research from the University of Sussex in the UK. The researchers point out that the link is currently a correlation rather than a proof of causation, but they do suggest that people who used a higher number of media devices concurrently also had smaller grey matter density — in other words they have smaller brains.

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Re:Oh crap

[ArcadeMan]

If web developers are morons for being able to make their stuff work on multiple operating systems on multiple versions of multiple browsers with standards that work half the time, then regular programmers who can't even optimize their programs for a single platform are just useless idiots who complain for nothing.

Re:Oh crap

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually the fact that you need such extensive work and humongous libraries just to get cross-browser stuff to work simply justifies my point. Web developers are morons.