Your phone buzzes. A notification pops up. Someone texts. Your mind wanders. Suddenly you’ve been “studying” for an hour but haven’t actually learned anything. Sound familiar? Short attention spans ...

Jeff Tompkins is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language living in New York City. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967 and was educated at Brown University and University College ...

Wondering why some students consistently top the class while you struggle despite putting in similar hours? The answer is not just intelligence, it is study habits. Toppers build small, consistent ...

Megan Edgelow is an assistant professor of health sciences at Queen's University, Ontario. The word "routine" can bring to mind words like mundane or ordinary. During the pandemic's disruptions to ...