The Nature Fix

frontal lobes easily produced those elusive and prized alpha brain waves of a wakefully relaxed state. This ...

to small patterns) so magical and so highly preferred among most people? What, for example, leads people lik ...

physiological resonance that occurs when the fractal structure of the eye matches that of the fractal image ...

people, perhaps Mesmer wasn’t such a crackpot after all. I had one final question for Taylor. I was inte ...

become more so as the weeks and months tick by. But now inmates can lift weights and do chin-ups several time ...

Deltcho Valtchanov, a twenty-something postdoc in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Waterloo in Ontari ...

panels, manufactured by a company called Sky Factory, whose motto is “Illusions of Nature.” “Wouldn’t it be ...

underwater for a few moments, which I don’t think was supposed to happen. I couldn’t help but feel a ...

would we build such ugly cities and suburbs, schools and hospitals? It’s not the views we mischaracterize, ...

Colors help us spot and distinguish foods and notice things out of the ordinary. Red pops out at us because w ...

Taylor, he believes there’s a Goldilocks sweet spot of complexity, not too busy and not too boring. For his Ph.D ...

“Well, it’s jagged and it’s white and the trees look dead, because it’s winter.” “But it’s beautiful,” ...

difference between those with myopia and those without is the number of hours they spend outside. Sunlight ...

PART THREE FIVE HOURS A MONTH ...

6 You May Squat Down and Feel a Plant The faint whisper of rain and running water was still there and it ...

Once upon a time in Finland, there were little forest spirits who could put spells on people who were ...

the boreal lands between the Baltic and North seas. Metsänpeitto is well documented into the nineteenth centu ...

Considered a rogue nature preserve, Vartiosaari hosts an unusually rich collection of woody plant species in ...

is not unlike my daughter’s old Waldorf preschool in Boulder, complete with paganistic rites, woodcrafts and Mid ...

“It wasn’t until the 1960s and ’70s that masses of people finally went to cities. Before that we were ...