SCOUT· 63%1h 29m·2026-07-06·Science360 | Marc Berman on the Science of Touching Grass
Modern life has, in many ways, removed us from the environments in which our ancestors lived and adapted. Not only do we spend time looking at screens, but we spend time indoors, or outdoors but in urban spaces. How does this affect how we think and feel? Psychologist Marc Berman is a pioneer of "environmental…
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“As long as science doesn't touch on the topic of the background frame rate that builds the universe in the first place before the Big bang I shall not touch grass.😂”
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