The Nature Fix

California company EMOTIV. The unit has only 14 electrodes and transmits real-time information wirelessly to a ...

Listen to the damn birds. A bicyclist careened past. We exited the park and walked up a quieter street, ...

University of Illinois’ Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, it was even more obvious. As ...

in nature per se. The “outdoor” part took place on campus streets, alleys and courtyards. Stanford may be bea ...

But, apparently, so did other people. Kramer told me later the study “was a bit of a bust.” There were ...

working memory improves,” he said. And, he explained, it is also consistent with the Kaplans’ Attention Res ...

it, “a maladaptive pattern of self-referential thought.” We might replay an unpleasant exchange or bad feeling ov ...

longer walks in an arboretum near his place or along the canal near mine. He was happier and mellower aft ...

Nesbit’s study decided they preferred the air-conditioning, or they simply didn’t respond to the follow-up que ...

PART FOUR BACKCOUNTRY BRAIN ...

9 Get Over Yourself: Wilderness, Creativity and the Power of Awe Calvin: Look at all the stars! The universe ...

David Strayer never gets tired of watching his college students tumble down the wilderness whirlpool into a ...

Moab confab. Just before dark, I pulled into the Sand Island campground along the San Juan River near ...

Although they vanished eight hundred years ago under mysterious circumstances (most likely drought and war), ...

stones used for grinding, the sharp bits that were broken pots. Strayer would point to a thousand-yea ...

backs loomed a sheer, smooth golden wall; to the south and west lay an expansive spread of the river and ...

fifteen minutes, not doing anything in particular. Different groups of subjects would be doing a similar n ...

for the other. Although I grew up in New York City, I dreamed of wild summer landscapes unfurling befor ...

heavy lid to check on dinner. “What I’m interested in isn’t that. That’s not what I and Abbey and Muir an ...

“The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature,” he wrote, “when those causes operate most powerfull ...