A popular topic in literacy studies (as well as in economics, advertising, neuroscience and psychology) is that of the “economics of...

An 1885 article in Nature entitled “The Measure of Fidget” is frequently referred to as the first scientific article on boredom. In the...

Everyone’s been bored. But there’s no single definitive meaning for the word “boredom" -- not in psychology, neuroscience, philosophy,...