Imagine, if you will, a show from NPR that's not like NPR.
A show that focuses not on the important but the stupid,
which features stories about people smuggling animals in their pants and competent criminals in ridiculous science studies.
And call it Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me because the good names were taken.
Listen to NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
Yes, that is what it is called wherever you get your podcasts.
You're listening to LifeKit.
from NPR.
Hey everybody, it's Marielle.
Is it the forest a magical place?
Like when you really venture into the woods and you see these century old trees towering over you,
sunlight twinkling through them and spiders weaving their elaborate webs.
The smell of pine needles is in the air.
Birds are tweeting.
You hear a mysterious sound that you're not gonna pay too much attention to but you really hope is not a bear.
There is a moment of awe that happens when you step into a forest.
And I think a lot of us can sense
that forest bathing or taking in the forest through your senses makes us feel better and calmer.
I was surprised to learn that there are decades of scientific evidence backing that up.
A lot of the evidence comes from Japan, where the term forest bathing originated in the 1980s.