[Pseudoscience-is-malarkey (OP)]

Abraham Lincoln allegedly once told his first love Ann Rutledge (who asked him why he has such a large collection of encyclopedias and law and nature books) "well, my brain gets to itchin' inside sometimes, and I got to scratch it".

I find myself getting little work done due to my curiosity and the instantaneous relief it gives. Anyone concur? You find yourself typing something like "Huey Long" into the Wikipedia search engine, and on his Wikipedia page you notice that he was killed by a man named Dr. Carl Weiss. You then pull up his Wikipedia page and read that he married his wife in Opelousas, Louisiana. You've never hear of Opelousas and promptly react by clicking into it's Wikipedia page and read that the town is named after it's Native American tribe Opelousa, which you never heard of, and well, you get the point.

[chris]

I think the behaviour that you describe it pretty much true across the Internet, which is why it often ends up being a time black hole, because every web page is a little present waiting to be unwrapped and triggers a little surge of dopamine in the brain. It's the intention of web designers to create sites that are as sticky as possible: they offer "if you liked X then you might like Y" links all over the place to encourage just the sort of behaviour that you experience with Wikipedia.

[evan_au]

I insert lots of links to Wikipedia in my posts, but I'm not sucked into it the way you seem to be!
I have too much stuff I have to get done...

[Ophiolite]

Abraham Lincoln allegedly once told his first love Ann Rutledge (who asked him why he has such a large collection of encyclopedias and law and nature books) "well, my brain gets to itchin' inside sometimes, and I got to scratch it".

I find myself getting little work done due to my curiosity and the instantaneous relief it gives. Anyone concur? You find yourself typing something like "Huey Long" into the Wikipedia search engine, and on his Wikipedia page you notice that he was killed by a man named Dr. Carl Weiss. You then pull up his Wikipedia page and read that he married his wife in Opelousas, Louisiana. You've never hear of Opelousas and promptly react by clicking into it's Wikipedia page and read that the town is named after it's Native American tribe Opelousa, which you never heard of, and well, you get the point.

You need to get yourself Mind Map software!