Taxpayers across Maine are keeping a closer-than-usual eye on their county officials after a series of budget crises.

Attention is the key to so many things related to our lives. We have to pay attention to walk across the street. We know our relationships are more satisfying if we actually pay attention to one ...

Every day, people make dozens of choices about how to deploy mental effort and where to focus. Do we give attention to work or play? Should we exercise or zone out in front of the TV? The decisions we ...

How could I not as my fifth- grade teacher loomed above my desk, calling me back to the classroom where for the last few minutes I had been staring out the windows looking at cloud formations. I ...

“Few things are as important to your quality of life as your choices about how to spend the precious resource of your free time,” writes Winifred Gallagher, author of the new book Rapt. There are ...

I don’t have the best attention span in the world. Some of it probably has to do with the fact that I belong to the distracted generation. I’ve grown up with a phone in my pocket, and I’m attuned to ...

There are many reasons why the Segway never achieved its purported promise, but a lot of them track back to the misplaced focus of Dean Kamen. He didn’t see the forest for the trees. He was so ...

It is fairly common knowledge in CPA circles that the rate at which the IRS examines partnership returns has cratered. Because of this, it may have escaped notice that the IRS has methodically ...

Data from brain scans can now answer an age-old question asked by parents and teachers everywhere: Are you paying attention? Using a model of fMRI data collected from 92 individuals performing several ...

I’ve been swimming a lot recently — and, no, thankfully not in Brodie. This behavior has perplexed me, as it’s not because I enjoy swimming (I don’t) or that I’m particularly good at it (I’m not). But ...

You probably recall the old joke about the farmer who had a recalcitrant mule. The mule resisted all his efforts to make him do what he wanted, so he hired a man who was renowned for training animals.