When studies are published talking about “attention span” decreasing they mean the amount of time people spend paying attention to one thing. They don’t mean people’s capacity for attention is decreasing.

I’m a bit surprised to see this myth is still around, but looking at the source maybe I shouldn’t be

The problem has never been availability of minerals.

It is the environmental damage from the polluting extraction process and lack of operational know how and trade secrets to do it efficiently.

An often overlooked competitive advantage China has is lack of environmental regulations

It would never happen. So it must be much less appealing than cocaine.

What abuse are they seeing with adderall? What I hear in casual conversations is that people are abusing it to learn things. Is that what the DEA was seeing too?

Your product gets, what? Max $2.50/# retail?

That ADHD is over diagnosed?

That it doesn’t require tailored interventions or advice?

That social media is exploiting interest in ADHD to provide low quality advice?

Or something else? Can you clarify your point?

There is no term limit for PM or members of parliament.

They stay on until they lose the support of their party.

He lost the support of his party due to his extreme unpopularity and the impact it will have on the future election. As seen by polls and bye elections.

More often the leader loses party support after an election loss.

However in this case, a loss is so likely and expected to be so bad that his party would rather go to the polls with a different leader.

Often that happens after a devastating election loss.

In this case it is happening because of his extreme unpopularity before the election and his parties hope of improving their election prospects under a different leader

Tip for students: do well on your first assignment. The better teachers will give you the benefit of the doubt for mistakes on your future work. The bad teachers will just give you the same grade.

Having older siblings and friends with older siblings and resubmitting their essay is eye opening.

The process described sounds like it is a lot more work than just answering the questions using knowledge.