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3: Good for Brain Health

Cortex

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Do You Have a Browser on Your Eye Pad?

i have a very hard time conveying why i make this decision. It's not that, oh, if i did have the browser on there, i would serf all day. This much more comes out of a whole field of cognitive science which has demonstrated that if you have options, even if you don't exercise those options, it is a drag on your brain. Anything i need to do on the internet, i can take out my eye pad and do it on the internet if i need to or ican do it from my dest top computer at home. But i don't need to do whatever that is the instant that it pops into my head anywhere i am wherrever

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