153. Should You Spend More Time in Nature?

No Stupid Questions

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🗓️ 9 July 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Is a walk through the city as good as a walk through the woods? Who’s most likely to die while taking a selfie? And how does Angela protect herself from the beer cans falling onto her deck?

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0:00.0	Oh my gosh, that is where Instagram really comes from.
0:05.6	I'm Angela Duckworth.
0:08.0	I'm Mike Marn.
0:09.0	And you're listening to no stupid questions.
0:11.5	Today on the show, why do we think nature is beautiful?
0:16.4	We all in person are asking ourselves, is this real?
0:20.6	And I mean obviously it was real, but it's so stunning.
0:30.0	Angela, I'm so excited to talk to you today.
0:38.6	Same Z's?
0:39.6	Hello Mike.
0:40.6	I'm so pleased you started with same Z's.
0:41.6	Okay.
0:42.6	So we have a listener named Tim.
0:44.3	He said, I saw a stunning photo on Twitter with a serene lake in Italy with majestic mountains
0:51.4	in the distance.
0:52.9	And he said, I wondered why do I find this so beautiful because beauty is supposedly
0:57.0	in the eye of the beholder, but I can't imagine anyone who looks on this site in nature having
1:02.4	a negative reaction to it.
1:03.8	It seems objectively beautiful.
1:06.1	Is it hardwired or learned and is this appreciation of beauty unique to humans?
1:11.5	So Angela, you live in a large city.
1:14.4	Philadelphia has about six million people in the greater metro, right?
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