Muse September 2017

by Galadriel Watson HOW TO ADD SPICE TO A BORED ZOO ANIMAL’S LIFE ...

When it comes to behaviors like these—ones the animal wouldn’t normally do in nature—zookeepers have two goals. First, they want ...

spritzing a cage with perfume encourages an animal to do something it would do in the wild: snif out new scents. As long as the ...

about boredom are that it’s unpleasant and people want to escape it,” says lead researcher Rebecca Meagher. “We wanted to test w ...

other researchers don’t want to study how to treat issues like stress and boredom: they want to prevent them from happening in t ...

Q & A Q: Is it possible to die of boredom? —Jerry A., 14, Virginia 81 were signs that boredom was stressing them out. “It’s ...

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BY KATHRYN HULICK JANE LABOWITCH Hands- On ...

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YOU’RE SITTING in class with a notebook and pen, listening to a lecture about ancient history. Most likely, the country’s capita ...

supposed to be paying attention to something else. In fact, the word doodle once meant a simple or foolish person, like “Yankee ...

Doodling to Learn Some doodles are more purposeful, though. These are meant to convey ideas rather than to relieve boredom. Pict ...

understand and remember material she was learning while in medical school. Or a person may use an infodoodle to share a concept ...

Doodle Challenge #1: The Artsy Scribble Scribble all over a piece of paper. Don’t lift your pen from the paper. 1RZVWRSDQGğO ...

Doodle Challenge #4: Your Royal Highness Write your name in as fancy a script DV\RXFDQPDQDJH7KHPRUHĠDLUWKH better. Deco ...

How many did you get right? 5–6: Sketch Sherlock–You’re a real sleuth! If a burglar ever leaves doodles at the scene RIDFULPH ...

Science @ Work Roxie Munroloves art. She is always busy creating different types of art. She draws and paints oil and watercolor ...

t20Post-itsheetsaday,plus veral others on a small clipboard with scratch paper. I doodle mainly while on the phone in the studio ...

published piece was quite like many of my abstract line doodles. Some of my art projects, particularly many of the mazes in the ...

Numbers are full of surprises— andlotsofkookypatterns. Here’s just one example. hink of an even number between0and9.Createanew n ...