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Do video games really rot your brain?

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

CHAPTER

The Importance of Reading Novels

Katherine Clark is a historian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She says people were really upset about novels in the 19th century. They worried that if you liked romance and adventure, you would not be able to pay attention to things better for your mind. So they're worried about the mind being weakened.

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