"After spending a few minutes on a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold things in memory, and suffers from reduced self-control. While it's long been recognized that city life is exhausting -- that's why Picasso left Paris -- this new research suggests that cities actually dull our thinking, sometimes dramatically so. " <http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/01/04/how_the_city_hurts_your_brain/>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/01/04/how_the_city_hurts_your_brain/ and also <http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=6892>http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=6892 Powered by LSoft's LISTSERV(R) list management software