In the 1980s, urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg coined a term that would explain why humans have thrived for millennia: The Third Place. If the "First Place" is your home and the "Second Place" is your work, the Third Place is the anchor of your community. It’s the pub where everybody knows your name, the barbershop, the local library, or the crumbling park bench where the same three people feed birds every morning.
But in the last decade, the Third Place has started to vanish—and it’s changing the way our brains function.
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