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#418 - Johann Hari - Why You Can't Pay Attention And Focus
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Lead Exposure and Violence in the Sixties
In the seventies, it was very common for people to use lead in paint in their houses. And er, a lot of cars had lead in petrel frank. It'd actually been known for a long time, but the lead industry denied it. But by the 70s, it was undeniable that lead fucks your brain. Exposure to lead causes really severe attention promiseing. In fact, the exposure to lead was so great in the sixties that it's almost certainly why there was a huge spike in violence in the s 1960s. The same thing happens with social media. Everything you do on facebook is scanned and sorted by their algorithms. If you like kile manoge
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