Walking in nature is good for your brain.  Why?  I’m not sure either, but that didn’t stop me from sharing a few ideas on this topic with a health and science reporter for the Medill News Service:

http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=206542

Someday when our never-ending series of studies on ego depletion and skill learning requires us to un-deplete people, we can take them for a walk around the lagoon outside the lab as a restorative nature walk?