Posted on 01/08/2009 2:00:53 PM PST by helpfulresearcher
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
How much cellulite is in the Senate, anyway?
Peggy Noonan lives in a rather large city, eh?
Hence the city-dwelling species known as homo moronicus democratus.
The farm pigeons are good to eat, but city pigeons, not so much. I would be concerned with disease with city pigeons, and Democrats for that matter LOL. Plenty of farms, when I was young, were infested with the things and farmers used to pay us to hunt them $1 a head. Crows included. First we had to chase them out in the fields, then bang!.
Doves are much harder to hit than pigeons. Taste about the same. When we weren’t having much luck with the peasant and grouse we would stop by the farm on the way home and get a few pigeons.
People live in cities for specific reasons:
A)It’s possible to make a great deal of money in a relatively short amount of time.
B)It’s possible to compete in terms of skill set against some of the best in the world.
C)To indulge a passion, such as art, music, etc.
Lookin at that pic, livin in the city make you ug-lee too.
Other capacities are sharpened.
Urbanites don't notice or care about some things that people from small communities do see and take in an interest in.
But they make up for that by developing other skills and things to focus on.
It looks like the researchers didn't get to the bottom of that.
Bump for later. Thanks.
Yes, our best and brightest live in the city.
It’s just another way to live — no better or worse than any other way. Depends on the person.
On the other hand, the crisis that nobody seems willing to talk about is the rapid depopulation of many rural communities.
The other thing I’ve noticed as a city dweller is the influx of rural folks who are unsuited to city life and end up getting into large amounts of trouble.
Yes, our best and brightest live in the city.
Not always, though certainly our most ambitious.
Thank God I’m a country boy!
Ugly is free, but I think you have to work really, really hard to get as stupid as Barbara Boxer or Patrica Bin Murray.
We always joke, when we have to drive into Boston, that we need tin foil hats, because folks who cross the border into the city seem to have lost IQ points, if they ever had that many.
"The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body."
-Thomas Jefferson
Ol' Tom pretty much had it pegged, dint he?
The “”concentration of social interactions” that is largely responsible for urban creativity” can be created better on the internet...
Free Republic being a good example thereof.
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