Focus, focus, focus. Scientists are beginning to study the reasons why people’s minds wander, and how often it happens (http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/07/03/20/100wir_a3minds001.cfm).
They say that on average, the mind takes a little side trip 30 percent to 40 percent of the time, which means they probably missed something important during the portion of the study they spent thinking about their drive home.
George Lucas is the father of Anna Nicole’s baby. Actually, that’s a lie, but we figured that by this point, your mind might be wandering, and we wanted to make sure you were paying attention when we told you how the public has been flagrantly misled on a crucial issue: the purity of the famed mineral water baths in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
It turns out that for the past 20 years, the company that operates the baths has been mixing the mineral water with tap water (http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/07/03/20/100wir_a2spa001.cfm). This means roughly 14,000 people a year have paid $20 to sit in heated former dishwater with bubbles and extra salt. At the spa, that’s a called a hydrotherapy treatment. In college, it’s called sneaking into the neighbors’ hot tub.
We’d really like to go on, but with all this talk of mineral baths and hot tubs, our minds just won’t stop wandering.
— Katie Mayer, Herald staff
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