Cognitive scientists have a name for the moment you finish a page and realize you took in none of it, and a Harvard study that caught people's thoughts at random found the mind wanders off from whatever the body is doing for almost half of waking life. (opens in new tab)

What happens when you read a page and take in none of it Most people know the experience. You reach the bottom of a page, and you realise you have absorbed nothing. Your eyes moved across every line. The words were in focus. Somewhere around the second paragraph your attention left the room, and you […]