Posts Tagged "lottery"

Why We Keep Playing the Lottery

“Fantasizing about winning the lottery activates the same parts of our brains that would be activated if we actually won, notes Daniel Levine, professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Arlington, and an expert on decision theory and neural networks. Picturing ourselves in a limo activates visual areas of the brain, while imagining the clink of champagne glasses lights up the auditory cortex.”

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Lottery

At work, Phil got a bunch of folks to do a big group-buy for the lottery. Jackpot is somewhere around $275M, and roughly 60-some folks chipped in $2 each. All told, I think there was someting like 126 tickets. I’m not one to play often, but on rare occasions like this – I feel like throwing in just to see…

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