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Bored to Death

Series: A Moment of Science
From: WFIU
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Amosfacebookbanner_small We've all been bored from time to time. Sometimes, when we're really at loose ends, we might even say we're "bored to death" or "so bored I could die!"

We don't really mean it, of course.

But according to one study, it may be true. That is, it seems possible literally to be bored to death. Researchers in England looked at surveys done in the mid 1980s-several thousand questionnaires filled out by London civil servants about their jobs.

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We've all been bored from time to time. Sometimes, when we're really at loose ends, we might even say we're "bored to death" or "so bored I could die!"

We don't really mean it, of course.

But according to one study, it may be true. That is, it seems possible literally to be bored to death. Researchers in England looked at surveys done in the mid 1980s-several thousand questionnaires filled out by London civil servants about their jobs.

Find out more on this A Moment of Science...


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