The Great Indoors

The indoor environment affects our lives in profound, and sometimes surprising, ways. In this talk, science journalist Emily Anthes, author of The Great Indoors, will highlight the connection between houseplants and stress, ventilation and cognitive performance, daylight and mood, and more. And she’ll discuss how evidence-based design can help us create indoor spaces that improve our health and wellbeing, including our sleep.

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About the author:

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. She is also the author of Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech’s Brave New Beasts, which was longlisted for the PEN/E.O Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Emily’s work has also appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, Nature, Slate, Businessweek, and elsewhere. Her magazine features have won several awards, including the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award and the NASW Science in Society Journalism Award. 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.