Managing Distraction: How and Why to Ignore Your Inbox – Forbes

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Apr 192012
 

Forbes
Managing Distraction: How and Why to Ignore Your Inbox
Forbes
I've been paying particular attention to just these sorts of distractions for the past seven years, ever since my son, then nine, was diagnosed with ADHD. Like millions of other modern parents, I realized I shared his symptoms – a discovery that ...

Poet Laureate takes on the witches – The Guardian (blog)

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Apr 102012
 

The Guardian (blog)
Poet Laureate takes on the witches
The Guardian (blog)
... over whether they were genuine conspirators against the wobbly social order (their deaths in 1612 came seven years after the Gunpowder Plot), or victims of prejudice against 'wise women' herbalists whose village medicine sometimes went badly awry.

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