Op-Ed Columnist - How to Lick a Slug - NYTimes.com
"A British study found that children could more easily identify Japanese cartoon characters like Pikachu, Metapod and Wigglytuff than they could native animals and plants, like otter, oak and beetle.
Mr. Louv calls this “nature deficit disorder,” and he links it to increases in depression, obesity and attention deficit disorder ...
One study of three generations of 9-year-olds found that by 1990 the radius from the house in which they were allowed to roam freely was only one-ninth as great as it had been in 1970."
Sunday, August 02, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist - How to Lick a Slug - NYTimes.com
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