You've heard humans now have an 8-second attention span, shorter than a goldfish. It's everywhere—headlines, TED talks, marketing decks. It's also completely fabricated. This episode debunks the myth, traces its absurd origins, and explores what the actual neuroscience reveals about infinite scrolling, dopamine, and whether your brain is really changing.

00:00 - Cold open: Welcome to the scroll

01:20 - The 8-second goldfish myth debunked

03:45 - Tracing the false stat to its source

05:30 - What goldfish can actually do

07:00 - Research shows no decline in attention spans

09:15 - How infinite scroll weaponizes dopamine

12:00 - Headlines vs. what the research actually says

14:30 - Why it feels broken if it isn't

16:45 - Outro

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