How Indoor Environments Affect Our Health & Happiness | Emily Anthes
EPISODE 61 | Emily Anthes is a science journalist and author. Her new book, The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness, was published in June. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, Nature, Slate, Businessweek, and elsewhere. Emily has a master’s degree in science writing from MIT and a bachelor’s degree in the history of science and medicine from Yale, where she also studied creative writing. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. In the episode, Emily shares practical tips for making your home—and home office!—more desirable and productive; how schools, prisons, hospitals, and large offices can improve their spaces; fascinating facts about your unique “home biome”…and more! Enjoy!!
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QUESTIONS I ASK EMILY IN THE EPISODE:
- What’s your story (specifically, what led you to become a journalist)?
- What piqued your interest in indoor environments and their effect on our health?
- I’d love to touch on different aspects of your research. How do our indoor spaces affect mentally? Physically?
- Let’s talk about windows, layout, and temperature. What does research suggest about windows? Room design? Ideal temperature?
- I’m particularly fascinated in your discoveries about the biome in our own homes vs. the biome in others’ homes. Can you touch on that?
- How can we better design schools? Prisons? Hospitals? Offices?
- Since so many of us are working from home right now, what are some of the most important changes we can make to our common areas/work space to boost our mood and productivity?
- What questions do you still have about how indoor environments affect our health?
LINKS [SOME MAY BE AFFILIATE LINKS; PLEASE READ MY DISCLOSURE FOR MORE INFO]:
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- Listen to my interview with Dr. Stewart Lonky about the effect of environmental toxins on our health
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