There is probably nothing more frustrating than having an inattentive audience. Yet, every one of us is an audience to the next person. Even more worrisome, most of us are inattentive audiences for one another, and we seem to be becoming more so every day! Human...

In this age of overwhelming information being directed upon our collective senses, it is extremely easy to forget things. Gone are the days when chronic memory loss was a malady known mainly with old people (it almost brought down a US president while he was still in...