Dear Commons Community,

The NY Times has an article on the experiences of five neuroscientists who decide to unplug completely from their high tech daily lives to spend a week  rafting on a remote river in southern Utah.  No watches, no cell phones, no laptops.  Two of the five believe that the nature experience will refresh their brain function while the other three are skeptical.  The give and take between them is interesting.  They discuss anxiety, deep thinking, and attention deficit disorder. It is worth a read for anyone interested in what happens when we become unplugged from our fast-past technology connected lives.

Tony

The full column is available at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/technology/16brain.html?th&emc=th