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‘News overload’: how a constant stream of violent images affects your brain

‘News overload’: how a constant stream of violent images affects your brain

In May 1097, during the siege of Nicaea, crusaders catapulted the severed heads of prisoners over the walls surrounding the city, with the aim of terrorising their enemy. The strategy worked. On June 19 of the year the crusaders captured the city. However, only those who lived near the city walls would have felt the […]…