UCLA Gymnasts Finds Her Joy Again

A viral video of the amazing gymnast Katelyn Ohashi took the web by storm (in January 2019). The video shows an energetic female gymnast does an impressive ...

Famous Author Says ‘Boredom of Heaven Worse than Tortures of Hell’

Science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov expressed the attitude many have about heaven when he wrote, "I don't believe in the afterlife, so I don't ...

Film Director Goes to Church to be Bored

Paul Schrader is the writer and director of the film First Reformed, which centers on a divorced minister who is experiencing a crisis of faith related ...

Country Singer Merle Haggard's Restless Soul

Country music icon Merle Haggard (1937-2016), had 38 of his albums appear on Billboard's country-music top 10 charts (more than a dozen made it to Number ...

App Designer Explains How We Get Hooked

How do Silicon Valley tech gurus design a successful app, an app that will hook consumers and then keep them hooked so they keep coming back to the app? ...

First Solo Female Pilot to Circumnavigate the Globe

Jerry Mock was the first solo female pilot to circumnavigate the globe. In the early 1960s the 38-year-old homemaker off-handedly told her husband that ...

Actress Admits Her Greatest Fear—Boredom

In a recent (2014) Rolling Stone interview, actress and comedienne Melissa McCarthy confesses that since childhood she's had a recurring nightmare. In ...

Everybody Expects to Be Entertained

Here's how the best-selling author Michael Crichton described our need to be constantly entertained:

Today, everybody expects to be entertained, and they ...

Many Cultures Still Don't Have a Word for Boredom

Science writer Winifred Gallagher argues that what we call boredom (which she defines as "the unpleasant sense that there is nothing that interests you"), ...

Lives of 95 Percent Boredom, 5 percent Terror

I saw a troubling quote today. I was reading a news story about an NYPD detective named James Zadroga who had died from lung problems. Following 9/11, ...