Infovores

Ever notice that when you’re sitting at your desk, trying to get work done, you sometimes can’t resist surfing the internet … you graze on news, the blogs, maybe some cute kitten photos, just to scratch that itch. Well, thank goodness, it turns out this time-wasting may not be our fault ? new research suggests this kind of info-seeking behavior is hard-wired into us. Dr. Irving Biederman is a neuroscientist at the University of Southern California who’s been studying the phenomenon, and he’s even come up with a new name for all of us information-hungry humans ? infovores! Faith Salie speaks with Dr. Irving Biederman on Fair Game.