IN today’s fast-paced world, we’re often told that multi-tasking is a valuable skill. We’re encouraged to juggle multiple tasks at once, believing it makes us more efficient and productive. But the ...

IN today’s fast-paced world, we’re often told that multi-tasking is a valuable skill. We’re encouraged to juggle multiple tasks at once, believing it makes us more efficient and productive. But the ...

Multi-tasking has a bad name – with good reason. But it can work nicely sometimes. Multi-tasking is a bad idea. It is taxing on your brain and not as effective as it might seem. But fortunately, ...

Study lead author Shira Offer, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, said: 'Gender differences in multitasking are not only a matter ...

Muti-tasking in this day and age can leave you in a bit of a tizz. Juggling too much technology at once – such as texting or browsing online while watching TV – is said to make you less efficient. But ...

Blokes' brains burn more energy when they have to do several things at once, experts discovered SCIENTISTS have discovered why women are better at multi-tasking then men. Blokes’ brains burn more ...

Multi-tasking while driving is dangerous, according to a new report produced by the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) and the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL). The research focuses on the ...

I remember becoming acutely aware of students’ multi-tasking abilities in 2005. I watched my daughter, who was a senior in high school, do her homework while also enjoying four other inputs—music from ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Forget invisibility or flight: the superpower we all want is the ability to do several things at once. Unlike other ...

Britons are increasingly overlapping their media habits - tapping out e-mails while watching TV, reading a paper while answering texts from friends. But, asks Hugh Wilson, does media multi-tasking ...