Ow, Los Angeles!9thJanuary
Posted by Esther Einhorn on Jan 09, 2009 in
in the Boston Globe.
"Now scientists have begun to examine how the city affects the brain, and the results are chastening. Just being in an urban environment, they have found, impairs our basic mental processes. After spending a few minutes on a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold things in memory, and suffers from reduced self-control. While it's long been recognized that city life is exhausting -- that's why Picasso left Paris -- this new research suggests that cities actually dull our thinking, sometimes dramatically so.
One of the main forces at work is a stark lack of nature, which is surprisingly beneficial for the brain... Even these fleeting glimpses of nature improve brain performance, it seems, because they provide a mental break from the urban roil."
Cities = Bad. Nature = Good.
This is probably why I get really irritable in the mall, too. Just try and test my patience in the women's shoe section in Macy's. I will shoot you.
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