The term brain rot first appeared in Henry David Thoreau's famous Walden, according to the Oxford University Press. How did he use it — and what might he have made of its modern meaning?

While the name Henry David Thoreau often brings Walden Pond to mind, the author who longed to return to nature really only lived on its shores for two years. His journals show that he really spent ...

In October of 2015, the New Yorker magazine ran an article by award-winning journalist Kathryn Schulz ttitled “Pond Scum: The Real Henry David Thoreau.” (The title was later changed in the ...

When photographer Donald T. Stevenson read Thorson’s book The Boatman: Henry David Thoreau’s River Years, he sent Thorson a series of aerial and ground photographs over the Sudbury River that ...

But the influential philosopher Henry David Thoreau was born more than 200 years ago -- and now a term he’s credited with introducing, “brain rot,” is the Oxford University Press’s word or ...