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Interrupted and distracted: Johann Hari wants you to regain your attention

Life Examined

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Neuroscience and the Obesity Epidemic

We sleep 20 % less than people did a century ago. Air pollution, the way we eat is profoundly harming our ability to focus and pay attention. There are factors in our environment that are very recent re if this was a flaw in human biology, it would have always been a problem for humans.

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