There is as yet no scientific data to connect declining touch to the rise of mobile technology or social media, but Field's descriptions of people wrapped in their own worlds rather than each other, sitting in isolation, bowed over screens, a huddle unto themselves, are evocative and familiar.
The data show that the least productive species are those being recently excluded from temperate grasslands and consequently, species loss is not connected with decline of productivity.
"The scale of the Ebola crisis now unfolding in Sierra Leone and Liberia may well be connected to declining levels of international support for health system improvements in what remain two of the poorest and least developed countries in the world," said the committee chair and Liberal Democrat MP Sir Malcolm Bruce.
The Happiness Works survey found that factors connected to declining happiness are climates without creative freedom, unhealthy work-life balance and the pressure of taking on senior roles.
(The shameful fact that one-third of American teenagers drop out of school is deeply connected to declining literacy and reading comprehension).
Evidence connects the decline to recent changes in climate, as reduced late season snowpack increases the likelihood of cold injury to shallow-rooted trees (Hennon et al., 2012).
But if there was, in fact, a beginning to the epidemic of depression, sometime in the 16th or 17th century, it confronts us with this question: could this apparent decline in the ability to experience pleasure be in any way connected with the decline in opportunities for pleasure, such as carnival and other traditional festivities?
Eventually, he said, he hoped to determine whether loss aversion was connected to cognitive decline.
Could it be that America's addiction to firearms is connected to the decline of Charlton Heston's movie career?
The complications of Alzheimer's disease AD were deadly dangerous cause neurodegenerative disorders connected with the decline of the cognitive functions and loss of memory.
Other research has linked those changes to a reduction in the extent, and that in turn has been connected to a decline in krill and other food that the seabirds eat.
