Scientists have identified boredom as “an aversive state of wanting, but being unable, to engage in satisfying activity”, which arises from failures in one of the brain’s attention networks. But why we get bored and why is it important?
Artist Zdzislaw Beksiński is best known for his immense, obsessively detailed paintings of catastrophic landscapes, surreal humanoid figures and afflicted nudes.
Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly.
Kingston, Jamaica, is in the hands of highly organized and warring drug gangs who manage drug trafficking and distribution at all levels.
James May figures out why we are so afraid of heights.
Testing these explosive and beautiful glass objects.