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You know those presenters who always go over time?

It’s not just your imagination boring speakers drone on. At least according to a small study reported in a letter to Nature: “I investigated this idea at a meeting where speakers were given 12-minute slots. I sat in on 50 talks for which I recorded the start and end time. I decided whether the talk was boring after 4 minutes, long before it became apparent whether the speaker would run...

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