Curiosity Daily Podcast: The Need for Nature During Lockdown, Why Plants Are Green, and How Microbes and Parasites Might Make Us Healthier
Learn about why lockdown has made us need nature more than ever; why plants are green; and how microbes and parasites might actually make us healthier.
July 21, 2020
Episode Show Notes:
Why lockdown has made us need exposure to nature more than ever by Kelsey Donk
- ‘Nature Deficit Disorder’ Is Really a Thing. (2020, June 23). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/parenting/nature-health-benefits-coronavirus-outdoors.html
- Robbins, J. (2020). Ecopsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health. Yale E360. https://e360.yale.edu/features/ecopsychology-how-immersion-in-nature-benefits-your-health
- Louv, R. (2019). What is Nature-Deficit Disorder? - Richard Louv. Richardlouv.com. https://doi.org/http://richardlouv.com/blog/what-is-nature-deficit-disorder
- Pieters, H. C., Ayala, L., Schneider, A., Wicks, N., Levine-Dickman, A., & Clinton, S. (2019). Gardening on a psychiatric inpatient unit: Cultivating recovery. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 33(1), 57–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2018.10.001
- Weinstein, N., Balmford, A., DeHaan, C. R., Gladwell, V., Bradbury, R. B., & Amano, T. (2015). Seeing Community for the Trees: The Links among Contact with Natural Environments, Community Cohesion, and Crime. BioScience, 65(12), 1141–1153. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biv151
- Louv, R. (2020, March 16). 10 Nature Activities to Help Get Your Family Through the Coronavirus Pandemic. Children & Nature Network. https://www.childrenandnature.org/2020/03/16/10-nature-activities-to-help-get-your-family-through-the-pandemic/
This is why plants are green by Cameron Duke
- Cowern, D. (2017). Why aren’t plants black? [YouTube Video]. In Physicsgirl. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BRP4wcSCM0
- MinuteEarth. (2013). Why Are Leaves Green? Part 1 [YouTube Video]. In YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAQYpra4aUs
- UCSB Science Line. (2004). Scienceline.Ucsb.edu. http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=500
- What Color Do YOU Think the Sun Is? (2020). Stanford.edu. http://solar-center.stanford.edu/SID/activities/GreenSun.html
- Cooper, K. (2018, October 16). Was life on the early Earth purple? Phys.org. https://phys.org/news/2018-10-life-early-earth-purple.html
- Why are plants green? (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/uoc--wap061820.php
How microbes and parasites might actually make us healthier by Cameron Duke
- The Editors. (2010). Reconstituting the depleted biome to prevent immune disorders | The Evolution and Medicine Review. Evmedreview.com. https://evmedreview.com/reconstituting-the-depleted-biome-to-prevent-immune-disorders/
- EVOLUTIONARY THINKING IN MEDICINE : from research to policy and practice. (2018). Springer.
- Parker, W. (2014). The “hygiene hypothesis” for allergic disease is a misnomer. BMJ, 349(aug26 2), g5267–g5267. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g5267
- Parker, W. (2016, January 13). If being too clean makes us sick, why isn’t getting dirty the solution? The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/if-being-too-clean-makes-us-sick-why-isnt-getting-dirty-the-solution-50572
- Tanasescu, R., Tench, C. R., Constantinescu, C. S., Telford, G., Singh, S., Frakich, N., Onion, D., Auer, D. P., Gran, B., Evangelou, N., Falah, Y., Ranshaw, C., Cantacessi, C., Jenkins, T. P., & Pritchard, D. I. (2020). Hookworm Treatment for Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis. JAMA Neurology. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2020.1118
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