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College Professors Are Using Smart Drugs to Grade Your Crappy Essays
It's not just students taking modafinil to help them power through their workload.
This Is What It's Like to Spend 8 Months DJing for Ariana Grande
DJ Dubz on his creative director duties and the pop star's "old soul."
High on Audio: I Tried to Relax With Binaural Beats
The Monroe Institute has been going since the 70s and claims its Hemi-Sync program can lead to "discovery of self through technology."
The Lamp That Can Tell How Focused You Are
Clara combines EEG technology with ambient lighting to help users concentrate.
The 15 Albums That Will Make You Less Shit at Doing Work
STOP PROCRASTINATING (as soon as you've finished reading this article about records that help you work better)
Why We Spend About Half Our Time Awake Just... Spacing Out
Can you even make it through this article without your mind wandering?
A Tuesday Night Party in an OC Tapas Bar is Outshining LA's Club Game
From the night of choice, to the makeshift restaurant turned venue, to the ridiculous location, nothing about Focus should work. But it does.
Racists Are Pissed Off About the Trailer for the New Will Smith Movie
The movie's "race mixing" has provoked some of the most vile, old-fashioned racism you'll encounter this week.
How Electrotherapy Could Help Improve Concentration
New research on attentional brain waves shows how we suppress stimuli.
Tokyo Becomes A Beautiful Blur In New Photo Series
Takashi Kitajima uses Bokeh photography—purposely using unfocused light—to create awe-striking images of Japan.
Pay Attention, Daydreaming May Be Making You Unhappy
Even when we're thinking about pleasant things, new research suggests we're happier when we focus on the present. Ommmmm.
Can't Stop
"If it weren't for us Aspies, all you NTs would still be in caves." Aspies are people with Asperger's Syndrome, a mental disorder that allows its victims to concentrate on one thing, exclusively, forever and ever, hence important technological...