Monday, August 24, 2009
Medical news of the obvious
Remember when your Scout leader told you to hug a tree if you got lost in the woods? Turns out they were right, according to a new study.
Researchers had subjects walk in the woods, then the Sahara, and finally through a field blindfolded. What happened? Not so surprisingly, without the sun or some other object to guide themselves by, the people got lost and wandered around in circles. Especially the poor blindfolded ones. "Not only did they walk in circles, some of the circles were as small as about 66 feet, similar in size to a basketball court," sniffs the HealthDay article about the study.
We're looking forward to the follow-up, in which Smokey the Bear finally provides the evidence that only you can prevent forest fires.
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