Reading NPR: Willpower And The 'Slacker' Brain
"Here's where the results get weird. The students with seven digits to remember were nearly twice as likely to choose the cake as students given two digits. The reason, according to Professor Shiv, is that those extra numbers took up valuable space in the brain — they were a "cognitive load" — making it that much harder to resist a decadent dessert. In other words, willpower is so weak, and the prefrontal cortex is so overtaxed, that all it takes is five extra bits of information before the brain starts to give in to temptation." and the rest
Tamarack Hollow
Tamarack Hollow is a new county park off of Riva Ave. A mile long trail runs along the outside of the park while a smaller loop goes around the interior. Nice and quiet. I was the only one there. Interesting forest-northern reaches of the Pine Barrens.
| Name: | Tamarack Hollow |
| Date: | Jan 23, 2010 11:19 am |
| Distance: | 1.13 miles |
| Elapsed Time: | 28:45.9 |
| Avg Speed: | 2.3 mph |
| Max Speed: | 5.4 mph |
| Avg Pace: | 25' 33" per mile |
| Min Altitude: | 0 ft |
| Max Altitude: | 92 ft |
| Start Time: | 2010-01-23T16:19:28Z |
| Start Location: | |
| Latitude: | 40.423544º N |
| Longitude: | 74.470734º W |
| End Time: | 2010-01-23T16:48:14Z |
| End Location: | |
| Latitude: | 40.423385º N |
| Longitude: |
74.470616º W
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