Jacinda Taggett

Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. Endless scrolling. One or two seconds per image, video, or caption, then onto the next. I think science communicators so far have done a good job at saying “too much dopamine is bad! We’re hurting our attention spans!” But does anyone really know why?

Jacinda Taggett was recently featured in The Boston Globe about a comment on hot dogs. This experience got her wondering… why do we crave hot dogs in the summertime? Well to really understand the craving, you need to know the psychological and neurobiological reasoning behind comfort foods.

By: Olivia Mickles Friedrich Nietzsche insightfully noted, “Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.” This quote encapsulates the emotional core of the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which depicts the ambivalent process of erasing another person from one’s memory by following Joel Barish on his journey to getting his ex-girlfriend, Clementine Kruczynski, erased from his memory after discovering she had erased him from hers. This is done through...