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The Great Indoors
- The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
- Lu par : Suzie Althens
- Durée : 8 h et 7 min
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Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend 90 percent of our time inside, shuttling between homes and offices, schools and stores, restaurants and gyms. And yet, in many ways, the indoor world remains unexplored territory. 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 audiobook, 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. Drawing on cutting-edge research, she probes the painkilling power of a well-placed window and examines how the right office layout can expand our social networks. 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.
Along the way, Anthes takes listeners 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. And she previews 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.
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Global1 out of 5 stars
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Interprétation1 out of 5 stars
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Histoire1 out of 5 stars
- Pierre Gauthier
- 06/01/2021
Shallow and Disappointing!
With a strikingly original topic, this book starts off well with an enlightening discussion of the microflora and microfauna within our homes that, for a variety of reasons, has remained largely ignored by scientists until recently.
Sadly, the author, a journalist, quickly seems to run out of steam and then goes on to discuss very specific issues for no less specialized clienteles: persons with autism, hospital patients, prison inmates, Alzheimer sufferers, etc. She does so not in an analytical mode but as if she were chatting, speaking much of herself and providing countless pointless details. She eventually comes to amphibious houses, dome-shaped homes, adobe shelters on the Moon and the creation of a breathable atmosphere on Mars. In short, many readers may feel that the smoke and mirrors are there to divert attention from the paucity of pertinent contents. What would have been material for a fine article turns out diluted and aggravating.
The narrator in the audio version is lively but some may find that she often has the tone of a kindergarten teacher. Sadly, the rhythm of her rendition is hindered by the book’s many footnotes that she introduces with “note” and concludes by “end of note”.
Overall, it is difficult to recommend this half-baked offering to anyone.
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