Check it out suckas! I found this quick read at nytimes.com to be pretty damn interesting in that it explores the impacts of emerging ideas in the field of cognitive neuroscience. Apparently our minds are less rational than we once believed and much more associative. The ramifications of these findings will certainly be felt throughout various fields of study. This article, written by Sarah Williams Goldhagen, focuses on the way in which humans relate to trees and commonly use them as metaphors to describe abstract concepts, i.e. apples not falling far from their trees. Architects, landscape architects and urban designers are now considering this as they construct our built environment. Nothing like a little bit of real science to debunk an assumption about economic man while linking contemporary architecture to the natural world.
-KJW
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