today i m back with my favorite team. ask your doctor about symbicort. i got my first prescription free. call or click to learn more. [ male announcer ] if you can t afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. it s a great modern learning tool, but a new study says the internet could be doing damage to our memory. a team of researchers at columbia and harvard university as well as the university of wisconsin say repeated online exposure affects the brain s ability to retain information. the women who the woman, rather, who led that study is dr. betsy sparrow of columbia university. so betsy, when we look at this, we all use the internet. right. we use search engines each and every day. are we losing our memory here? i don t think so. i think what we re doing is just reprioritizing what we remember. so we tend to remember where we find things over the things themselves. and i m not actually sure that s damage, the way you put it. i think that it could be taking
used other people as information sources. and we re just using the internet more and more. and when you think about it the internet is really just an interface with a lot of other people. so what it s doing, it s allowing us to have this big network of external minds, you know, so to speak. so you just interesting. have a lot of information available to us and we just can t remember it all. this is interesting. you know what i m going to do after this interview? i m going to go google the study. thank you very much, betsy sparrow, for your time today. thank you. an automobile logjam of apock liptic proportions in and around los angeles turning out to be not so apocalyptic. the so-called carmageddon traffic event officials predicted would tie up the 405 is a lot lighter than expected, and if anything motorists are avoiding the highway in droves except for one. joining us by phone right now to give us the lowdown on the driving is the anchor of this show, of msnbc weekends,
with copd, i thought i might miss out on my favorite tradition. now symbicort significantly improves my lung function, starting within 5 minutes. and that makes a difference in my breathing. today i m back with my favorite team. ask your doctor about symbicort. i got my first prescription free. call or click to learn more. [ male announcer ] if you can t afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. it s a great modern learning tool, but a new study says the internet could be doing damage to our memory. a team of researchers at columbia and harvard university as well as the university of wisconsin say repeated online exposure affects the brain s ability to retain information. the women who the woman, rather, who led that study is dr. betsy sparrow of columbia university. so betsy, when we look at this, we all use the internet. right. we use search engines each and every day. are we losing our memory here? i don t think so. i think what we re doing is just
of this, what does it mean long-term from what you think? well, what i think it means is that we re doing with the internet what we ve always done with other people-s we ve always used other people as information sources. and we re just using the internet more and more. and when you think about it the internet is really just an interface with a lot of other people. so what it s doing, it s allowing us to have this big network of external minds, you know, so to speak. so you just interesting. have a lot of information available to us and we just can t remember it all. this is interesting. you know what i m going to do after this interview? i m going to go google the study. thank you very much, betsy sparrow, for your time today. thank you. an automobile logjam of apock liptic proportions in and around los angeles turning out to be not so apocalyptic. the so-called carmageddon traffic event officials predicted would tie up the 405 is a lot lighter than expected, and if an