Her previous book, Frankenstein's Cat, was long-listed for the PEN/E. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, Nature, Slate, Businessweek, Scientific American, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and elsewhere. About the Author: Emily Anthes is an award-winning science journalist and author. It's an argument for thoughtful interventions into the built environment and a story about how to build a better world-one room at a time. 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. Along 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. 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.

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. 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. 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? 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. 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. A fascinating, thought-provoking journey into our built environment Modern humans are an indoor species.

Emily anthes the great indoors