The Nature Fix

fact, we would rather not experience many of the smells of city living. We refrigerate our food, but we don’ ...

in a world filled with pollution. Scientists have known for a long time that particulate matter from ...

Beltway, even during off-peak hours. More shocking, though, I recorded equally high values in my kids’ ...

reactions within the wood and leaves. Evergreen forests smell strongest in midsummer, which is also when pe ...

technology. The latter is a big deal in Korea, the most wired country in the world. More than 90 percent ...

in smart outdoor attire moved like ants up the park’s hilly trails. By the time I got there, seven boys ...

After that, Kim and her assistant led the boys on a slippery hike up a riverbed, one that would challen ...

in the forest also led them to report feeling happier, less anxious and more optimistic about their futu ...

don’t change their mind-set now, there will be no chance.” Park himself, now in his early forties, ...

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4 Birdbrain Most people never listen. — ERNEST HEMINGWAY ...

Over the summer, I tried to find a patch of quiet. I spent some time wearing a portable EEG device o ...

increased 25 percent since just 2002, and 30,000 commercial aircraft fly overhead per day. In 2012, the Fed ...

they’d said. But it’s been over two years now and I still hear the planes. They drive me crazy. It’s ...

isn’t happening. In fact, I’ve learned that full habituation is a bit of a pipe dream. Just because yo ...

attributed to navy sonar, the vibrations from which literally cause heads to explode. In the remote backco ...

sense we feel with our whole being. It’s only after sound signals wash through our limbic brains that ...

and children’s cognition, funded by the European Union and published in the Lancet in 2005, researchers followed ...

these noises: annoyance. It doesn’t sound very scientific, but it turns out to play a big role in how people ...

coordinates the science at the rather romantic-sounding “Natural Sounds and Night Skies” division of the agency. I ...