# What currently fascinates you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 10, 2009, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-currently-fascinates-you/505933 "2009-08-10T15:14:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-currently-fascinates-you/505933/41 "2009-08-12T03:27:53Z")
Planes, trains, and automobiles. Photography, particularlly stereoviews and panoramics. History ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-currently-fascinates-you/505933/42 "2009-08-12T03:37:36Z")
Neurobiology, memory formation and recall ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-currently-fascinates-you/505933/43 "2009-08-12T14:42:12Z")
> [@toadspittle](#): > > Neurobiology, memory formation and recall Interesting. Do you have anything to contribute to [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=527564) on Dissociative Identity Disorder? I’m curious how you perceive this disorder based on your knowledge of memory processing. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-currently-fascinates-you/505933/44 "2009-08-12T14:51:03Z")
Cooking, especially in a tagine. Making my own sushi. Filling my cellar with homemade wine. ---
**Author:** ![Other\_Dreams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Other\_Dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Other_Dreams)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-currently-fascinates-you/505933/45 "2009-08-12T22:39:58Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > - If by “currently fascinates” we mean “constantly distracts and becomes my central focus for as long as they are in line of sight” then, yeah - I’m with you. Man genes - what can you do? I am fascinated _by_ the fascination of “boobs”. Call it a meta-fascination. It makes me wonder about the workings of sexual attraction. Hmm. > [@Electric\_Warrior](#): > > Everything including why my drop down list of recent Google searches is 9/10 things relating to the treatment of suicidal patients in English mental hospitals. (Which unfortunately I am still clueless about. Google fail.) What time period? ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-currently-fascinates-you/505933/46 "2009-08-13T02:31:50Z")
Little by little, I’m starting to become a Manhattan Project buff. It seems like it comes up in everything I read lately. It’s leading me to suspect that the history of the Twentieth Century is, in large part, the history of the Bomb. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-currently-fascinates-you/505933/47 "2009-08-13T02:34:26Z")
Expanding my guitar playing. Reading. Teaching myself .NET stuff. But first and foremost: SWMBO. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-currently-fascinates-you/505933/48 "2009-08-13T13:14:13Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > [ul] > [li][Mark Ryden](http://www.markryden.com/index.html)[/li][li]cookbooks[/li][li]volunteering[/li][/ul] \*\*faithfool \*\*- if you like Ryden’s art (basically post-modern, pop portraits featuring stylized big-eyed children like those old Carolyn Keane paintings from the 60’s), I suppose you like John Currin, too? I would post links but the first searches I did had some of his NSFW paintings. Or Lisa Yuskavage and her pseudo-pinup paintings? Their stuff is selling for a mint, but I don’t get how anyone could display it in a room they live in… \*\*Clothahump \*\*- what type of guitar are trying to play? I mean in terms of music style… ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-currently-fascinates-you/505933/49 "2009-08-14T02:57:23Z")
I’ll have to look those up, **WordMan** , so thanks for the links. I’ve just now come upon Ryden’s work, so I’m not sure who I’ll like that’s similar to him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-currently-fascinates-you/505933.md?page=2)