You mean I don't have some mystical connection to the trees and that it's simply burned into my synapses from eons of evolution?!
How Trees Calm Us Down
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#32All of those saying correlation is not causation did not read the article. The study detected an immediate and neasurable effect from just walking among trees.
Now I think this probably is causation, but pointing out that the correlation is really strong is not an argument against "correlation is not causation".
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#33A tree on a street is incredibly expensive to maintain. The tree itself need maintaince from a gardner and the surrounding road and sidewalk needs extra maintenence too.
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#34A tree on a street is incredibly expensive to maintain. The tree itself need maintaince from a gardner and the surrounding road and sidewalk needs extra maintenence too.
The price is worth paying, and planting more trees will bring the cost per tree down.
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#35Oxygen?
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#36I was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, but moved out to rural NJ in my thirties. I bought a house on a lake with no motorboats, plenty of black bears and raccoons and lots of trees. I now live in the rice fields of East Java, Indonesia, so I guess you can say I love the outdoors. I do question the science or numbers in the study as much as I believe the basic premise to be true, however, correlation does not automati…
As someone who suffers from hay fever being around trees can be weeks of pain for me every year
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#37I can see a market for a VR movie/game which allows the user to walk/drive through (or just sit in) a forest :)
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#38I can see a market for a VR movie/game which allows the user to walk/drive through (or just sit in) a forest :)
Such a typical tech reaction/sentiment: what's better than real trees? A VR simulation of trees! :)
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#39I was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, but moved out to rural NJ in my thirties. I bought a house on a lake with no motorboats, plenty of black bears and raccoons and lots of trees. I now live in the rice fields of East Java, Indonesia, so I guess you can say I love the outdoors. I do question the science or numbers in the study as much as I believe the basic premise to be true, however, correlation does not automati…
If you want to know more you may be interested in these:
Japanese researcher describes (with control group) the interesting affects of walking in a forest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jPNll1Ccn0
Indian researcher describes side affects of indoor plants on health esp. air quality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmn7tjSNyAA
I'm incorporating some of these concepts into my tiny house design e.g. a terrarium and an hinoki ofuro, together with natural daylighting.
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#40I can see a market for a VR movie/game which allows the user to walk/drive through (or just sit in) a forest :)
Such a typical tech reaction/sentiment: what's better than real trees? A VR simulation of trees! :)
For those people where getting out and about to real woodland is impractical, then yes I see a good market for VR solutions such as this.
Housebound or otherwise infirm people would benefit from VR simulations of peaceful locations.
Likewise so would all us shut-in techies that live in our basements...