Bored? Now you know why

Boredom feels more intolerable, these days, because there’s so much stimulation to be hadAmerican researchers just published what they’re calling “the most comprehensive empirical account of the experience of boredom” ever conducted. And they’ve solved the mystery of what causes boredom: people feel bored, they concluded, when they’re doing boring things! Which is a less boring finding than it seems, since it puts paid to one of the favourite admonis