The Great Indoors provides a fresh perspective on our most familiar surroundings and a new understanding of the power of architecture and design. And she previews the homes of the future, from the high-tech houses that could monitor our health to the 3D-printed structures that might allow us to live on the Moon. She investigates how room temperature regulates our cognitive performance, how the microbes hiding in our homes influence our immune systems, and how cafeteria design affects what–and how much–we eat.Īlong the way, Anthes takes readers into an operating room designed to minimize medical errors, a school designed to boost students’ physical fitness, and a prison designed to support inmates’ psychological needs.

by Emily Anthes RELEASE DATE: June 23, 2020. We're talking with Emily Anthes, author of THE GREAT INDOORS: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness. E mily Anthes might seem particularly suited to sheltering in place during the Covid-19 pandemic. Top: Photo by LYCS Architecture on Unsplash. Drawing on cutting-edge research, she probes the pain-killing power of a well-placed window and examines how the right office layout can expand our social networks. THE SURPRISING SCIENCE OF HOW BUILDINGS SHAPE OUR BEHAVIOR, HEALTH, AND HAPPINESS. In The Great Indoors, Emily Anthes takes a timely look at our built environments and their impacts on our health. In this wide-ranging, character-driven book, science journalist Emily Anthes takes us on an adventure into the buildings in which we spend our days, exploring the profound, and sometimes unexpected, ways that they shape our lives. The Great Indoors by Emily Anthes, Jun 23, 2020, Dreamscape Media edition, audio cd. For all the time we spend inside buildings, we rarely stop to consider: How do these spaces affect our mental and physical well-being? Our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors? Our productivity, performance, and relationships?

And yet, in many ways, the indoor world remains unexplored territory. We spend 90 percent of our time inside, shuttling between homes and offices, schools and stores, restaurants and gyms. This book has been written by Emily Anthes. Emily Anthes is a freelance science journalist and author of The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness.

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