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Why this Harvard professor says boredom might be the key to happiness
October 27, 2025 1:46 pm
Harvard professor Arthur C Brooks says boredom activates the brain’s default mode network, and warns that constant phone use may be shutting down our capacity to find meaning.
Boredom, loneliness plague Ukrainian youth near front line
August 15, 2022 12:16 pm
With cities largely emptied after hundreds of thousands have evacuated to safety, the young people who remain face loneliness and boredom as painful counterpoints to the fear and violence Moscow has unleashed on Ukraine
From food allergies to boredom: Reasons dogs lick their paws
April 07, 2022 8:24 pm
"There may be several reasons causing your dogs to lick or chew their paws," said Bhupender Khanal, Founder & CEO, Dogsee.
Here's how you can escape from boredom: 'Don't think about it, feel it'
January 13, 2022 12:44 am
If you’re heavily bored and find yourself in a rut, take a look at this motivational TEDx talk by children's book author and illustrator Hans Wilhelm.
How boredom can make us do creative things
January 03, 2021 3:32 pm
The pandemic revealed what researchers have long known — ennui could be the gateway to re-engaging with the world
Tweak the view from your window and say goodbye to lockdown boredom
August 23, 2020 3:30 pm
The website has been created by husband-and-wife duo Sonali Ranjit and Vaishnav Balasubramaniam, as a "social-distancing passion project" born out of their own boredom.
Stop being afraid of boredom
August 10, 2020 11:18 pm
Grab a pen and paper and be bored, and see how thoughts, amazing, incredible, creative thoughts will start flying through the mind.
Embrace boredom if you are looking to become more interesting
January 30, 2020 2:13 pm
Experts say that in order to master ennui, you must push yourself to explore the feeling as honestly as possible.
Get bored easily? You are prone to chronic hair-pulling
March 11, 2015 7:30 pm
Finding a way to reduce your boredom or frustration can help you push aside hair-pulling and other body-focused repetitive behaviour.
Feeling of sadness lingers on longer
October 31, 2014 2:22 pm
According to a study, sadness often goes hand-in-hand with events of greater impact such as death or accidents.
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