"'Gabe Heaven' consists of a barren world, devoid of life, populated by yourself and an army of robots whose behavior you control. Is that about right?"

The second surprise was that the brain areas active in love are different from the areas activated in other emotional states, such as fear and anger. Parts of the brain that are love-bitten include the one responsible for gut feelings, and the ones which generate the euphoria induced by drugs such as cocaine. So the brains of people deeply in love do not look like those of people experiencing strong emotions, but instead like those of people snorting coke. Love, in other words, uses the neural mechanisms that are activated during the process of addiction. “We are literally addicted to love,” Dr Young observes. Like the prairie voles.

Smoking is forbidden in our building, so smokers congregate on the pavement by the rear door, and the real stairwell always reeks of cigarette smoke. But this is an intolerable distance for some schmuck on our floor, who has been taking cigarette breaks in the bathroom every afternoon. Today there is a nasty note in Danish in the bathroom - nice to see somebody else doesn't care for drug addicts getting their fixes and leaving their messes in shared office space.

Also, I now know what U2 was talking about re: Zoo Station on Achtung Baby. Downtown Berlin is basically one big railway station after another. When the main train station was caught behind the Berlin Wall, the pretty little Bahnhof by Zoologische Garten got promoted into being the main station for West Berlin. It's called Zoobahnhof, or Zoo Station, and both the intra-city and long-haul trains share one big platform. They're finishing up a new cross-shaped central station so that the long-distance and international trains will have a platform of their own. Counting the former eastern stations, there are four major urban-center train stations in a row in downtown Berlin.