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...Mother Reader.” The last print in this series, titled “Pledge” after a bottle of the wood floor cleaner, exposes the room’s transformation. The shelves have been purged of literary material and now house up-to-date sound equipment, poker chips, and plastic train sets. The personality of this now-sparsely furnished room has changed entirely: the print is more lightly exposed, as one would imagine the room to be after the thousands of pages that insulate it from the outside world are removed. No longer a retreat for intellectual...
...Poker is no longer just a game. The Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society, recently founded by Harvard Law School Professor Charles R. Nesson ’60, has put the pedant back into poker. “It’s about teaching thinking,” remarks Nesson, founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. “Strategic games like poker really lead into the mathematics of social interactions and economics.” GPSTS, he says, is “an effort to legitimate poker as an educational tool and strategy.” Nesson...
...areas. The first is the ventral tegmental, a clump of tissue in the brain's lower regions, which is the body's central refinery for dopamine. Dopamine does a lot of jobs, but the thing we notice most is that it regulates reward. When you win a hand of poker, it's a dopamine jolt that's responsible for the thrill that follows. When you look forward to a big meal or expect a big raise, it's a steady flow of dopamine that makes the anticipation such a pleasure...
Even with its intoxicating supply ofdopamine, the ventral tegmental couldn't do the love job on its own. Most people eventually do leave the poker game or the dinner table, after all. Something has to turn the exhilaration of a new partner into what can approach an obsession, and that something is the brain's nucleus accumbens, located slightly higher and farther forward than the ventral tegmental. Thrill signals that start in the lower brain are processed in the nucleus accumbens via not just dopamine but also serotonin and, importantly, oxytocin. If ever there was a substance designed...
...When Love Becomes a HabitEven with its intoxicating supply of dopamine, the ventral tegmental couldn't do the love job on its own. Most people eventually do leave the poker game or the dinner table, after all. Something has to turn the exhilaration of a new partner into what can approach an obsession, and that something is the brain's nucleus accumbens, located slightly higher and farther forward than the ventral tegmental. Thrill signals that start in the lower brain are processed in the nucleus accumbens via not just dopamine but also serotonin and, importantly, oxytocin. If ever there...