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Jackie Andrade of the School of Psychology at the University of Plymouth in the UK, wanted to know if doodling improves or hinders one’s attention to a primary task. To find out, she created a study in which 40 participants were asked to listen to a rambling telephone message about a planned birthday party. Participants [...]

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A Rare Botanical Legacy Essay by David Rains Wallace, Edited by Rick Bennett and Susan Calla (2009) $35, Hardcover In 1936, a chance meeting with Willis Linn Jepson led to a 10-year collaboration between the renowned California botanist, an amateur botanist named Ruby Van Deventer who was on a mission to document the flora of [...]

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