We are the same species as we were thousands of years ago; what has changed is the size of the world our brain is being asked to scan for threats. (Unsplash)

Why 40 per cent of people are avoiding the news, according to a psychologist

News fatigue is not a personal failing, but a result of an evolutionary brain being asked to process a large volume of bad news from around the world.

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