A listener wants a scientific-sounding word for being attracted to shiny objects, the sort of trait people associate with crows, magpies, or pack rats. No exact term turns up, but neophilic, related to neophilia, means drawn to what’s new and is the...
BSO n.— «But you see the neat part about it was that we usually only define success in terms of that and they use a lovely term called BSO’s, bright shiny objects, and most of us think that success is the accumulation of bright shiny...

