Out into the Great Outdoors

A follow-up to the previous post about the start of summer: Page 3.14 on Science Blogs notes that not only is “time spent outside is good for our mental health” (as proved by “myriad studies“), but greater biodiversity has greater benefits:

the extent of psychological benefits people enjoy from a walk in the park correlates directly to the extent of biodiversity in that park. Consciously or subconsciously, participants in the study more or less accurately perceived species richness in urban greenspaces, and felt proportionally restored by it.

No wonder Charlie runs so fast, sandals and shirt discarded, to be in that big blue ocean, and is he always ready to “go outside” and be where the real wild things are. The Scientific Activist explains why, with reference to biological clocks and circadian rhythms, in Ask a ScienceBlogger: A Sun Ray a Day…..