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    When the Mind Wanders

    An anatomy of daydreaming
    by Jake Pelini Sep 12, 2017 2 minutes
    Source: Christopher DeLorenzo

    one in 16 Americans visited the ER for home injuries that resulted from, among other things, fumbling knives (the cause of at least 249,000 injuries), ladders (at least 105,000), and cookware (at least 22,000). One of the main causes of these accidents? A wandering mind, says Steve Casner, the author of . By one estimate, he notes, people

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