Frozen Pants Is a Chill Trend in Minnesota
It’s winter. Gather the family ’round the snow dunes and get into this new pastime: Frozen pants.
Here Is What a Hard-Working, Overachieving Person’s Day Looks Like
My day is practically an art form at this point. I’ve manipulated all the relevant factors to the exact desired ratios, while keeping them just flexible enough to be changed up for variety’s sake. This is on purpose: As someone who has battled boredom since birth, I learned how important it was to build in escape…
What Is the Point of Carson Daly?
Animatronic Cardboard Boy Wonder Carson Daly made some tiny, tiny waves this week with his comments about Clayton Frederick Osbon, the JetBlue pilot who went bonkers during flight and started running around the cabin screaming about bombs and Jesus and "sins in Las Vegas" and taking a "leap of faith." The plane's…
Being Bored Will Make You A Better Person
A rather counter-intuitive study has found that boredom could actually make people better themselves, by encouraging them to perform meaningful activities like giving blood.
"Facebook Generation" Is Bored, Drinks Too Much
Being called "the Facebook Generation" would be excuse enough for the UK's 16-24-year-olds to feel blue, but it's more serious than that: one in three said they were "bored with life" and lonelier than any other age group.
Do Today's Kids Need More Boredom?
Kids today: we already know that their FaceWii and their MyStation are making them fat and destroying their ability to form lasting relationships — but are they also failing to learn the value of boredom?
Boredom is often associated with a lack of mental activity brought on by a boring lecture or a painful date (for instance). But it actually turns out that
being bored barely takes less brain activity than being active and that it serves a role in the brain of making you get off your ass (physically or metaphorically)…
