Every time we look at nothing we find something

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Not the pleasure centre

Thanks to The Infamous Brad I read this article about attention centres in the brain.

Remember the experiment where they put a wire in the pleasure centre of a rat's brain and it would repeatedly press the on-button until it died of starvation?

Turns out that it wasn't the pleasure centre, but something more akin to curiosity, anticipation or foraging. It's the same bit of the brain that goes "Ooh, an interesting link, I shall click on it.", or "If I slay one more Orc then maybe I'll find something cool", or "I shall hit refresh one more time on LJ to see if anyone has posted in the last 3.5 seconds."

So if you've ever wondered where an hour went while you link-hopped on wikipedia, or why you haven't seen your partner in the week since they bought the latest World of Warcraft expansion, now you know :->

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-13-2009

• The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry that makes us love Google, Twitter, and texting.
  Plus World of Warcraft :->
  (tags: attention dopamine addiction pleasure psychology)
• Why MSG allergy is fake science
  Huzzah for myths and pseduoscience
  (tags: food allergies msg)
• The Beatles Make the Leap to Rock Band
  Very nice behind the scenes look at what it took to get the game made. With added Yoko Ono!
  (tags: beatles rockband games)
• This is why we still have IE6
  Read all the way to the bottom...
  (tags: ie6 internet EpicFail)
• Man's gotta know his limitations
  A view on the George Sodini shootings
  (tags: men women relationships dating)
• Mick Jagger's Adventures in Toyland
  A lovely little personal reminiscence
  (tags: RollingStones MickJagger story)
• Arranged marriage re-think call
  Damned kids want to meet their wives in advance!
  (tags: marriage religion sikh Edinburgh)
• Frank Darabont to adapt Walking Dead comic
  For TV!
  (tags: TV zombies FrankDarabont)
• Inflation and the Fall of the Roman Empire
  Anyone care to tell me if this is a reasonable/accurate assessment?
  (tags: history economics politics inflation)
• Microsoft Office Web Apps drop support for IE6
  They do support Firefox and Safari though.
  (tags: microsoft web2.0 office web silverlight)
• Study gives happiness techniques thumbs up
  Four different techniques to make you happy, a sample size of 26,000 people. What more could you want?
  (tags: happiness science psychology)
• Someday, A Tiny Subway Will Deliver Your Groceries
  Welcome to the world of Tomooooorrooooow!
  (tags: TheFuture architecture design technology delivery tunnels)
• How to hack a Sony Reader
  Not that you can do a vast amount extra with them - still pretty cool though.
  (tags: sony ebooks hacking prs-505 ereader)
• Airborne rabbis fight off swine flu
  Which is pretty much the headline of the day. And the video is full of crazy people!
  (tags: judaism funny religion EpicFail)
• Resetting the clock: successful bodyhacking
  Looks like a 12 hour fast before waking sorts you out (anecdotally at least). So if you want to be up at 8am then stop eating at 8pm. I'll be giving this one a go...
  (tags: food biology sleep)
• Brain-jacking fungus turns living victims into zombies
  Zombie ants in this case, but still.
  (tags: zombies fungus brains biology)
• The career choice that delivers
  (tags: jobs life slow)

Any Nokia experts out there?

I have an N85 - I'm very tempted by the new 32GB SDHC cards - as I'd then be able to fit pretty much my entire music collection onto my phone.

Sadly, I can't find anything saying whether the N85 supports the 32GB cards - they didn't exist when it came out, but theoretically they should work.  Of course, when it comes to technology theory and practice are very different things, and I don't want to spend £60 testing this out.

Anyone know for sure?