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My friends have been complaining to me like this - "Dude, I don't know why but my mind is wandering a lot and I'm struggling to stay focused in what I'm doing. Can you please suggest me something to help me focus better?" So I decided to write this blog mainly for them and for many others who face the same issue.. When we're reading, our minds typically wander anywhere from 20 to 40 % of the time. Voluntarily keeping our attention on one thing continuously can take a lot of effort, so it's not surprising that many struggle with this sometimes. Luckily, there are ways to keep our attention spans from burning out, once we understand how they work. Our brain is split into 2 systems - System 1 and system 2. System 1 is the involuntary, always - on network in our brains that takes in stimuli and process it. It's the system that makes automatic decisions for us, like turning our heads when we hear our names or freezing when we see a spider. System 2 runs ...

Today, being World Environment Day, why not celebrate the environmentalist living inside each of us? The 2020 theme being 'Celebrate biodiversity', let's conserve and protect this biodiversity, which is very much essential for us. It's an idea that is increasingly in vogue for ecologists. Biodiversity doesn't have to be just about the number of a species in an ecosystem. Equally important to keeping an ecosystem healthy and resilient are the species' different characteristics and the things they can do - in terms of specific traits such as branch length or body size. It may be necessary for understanding and forecasting how flora and fauna cope with a changing climate. For decades, the study of biodiversity was essentially a numbers game: the more species an ecosystem had, the more stable and resilient to change it was thought to be. That mindset made sense because there was so little information available about the structures of an ecosystem and the function...