Word: authoring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...miles on average from farm to supermarket, but that journey typically accounts for just 4% of a food's carbon footprint. "Focus on eating lower on the food chain, with more plants and fruits and less meat and dairy," says Kate Geagan, a dietitian and author of the forthcoming book Go Green Get Lean. "It's that simple." Installing solar panels or buying a hybrid may not be possible for many of us, but we can change today what goes into our bodies--and those decisions matter, for the health of our planet and ourselves...
...good options and good incentives are not always enough. Sometimes people still need a helpful cue about their best choice, says Richard Thaler, a behavioral economist at the University of Chicago and author of Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness. Faced with a vast array of alternatives, many people--paralyzed--pick nothing, according to Thaler's research. "Sending people a bunch of options--that they can join health clubs or Weight Watchers or something--is probably not going to work," he says. What works is making good health effortless--say, by having a nurse come into the office...
...populations adapt to their surroundings, they can gradually evolve into new species. "We now have, I think, a good understanding of how new species arise - that is, how biological diversity is created," says Jerry Coyne, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago and the author of the new book Why Evolution Is True. "Darwin made little inroad into the problem, despite the title of his magnum opus...
Zimmer is the author of the forthcoming book The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution...
...universal female voice—constantly worrying, obsessing, overanalyzing, and most of all, making excuses for men. Alex is the suave manager of a bar, who coolly rejects girls on a regular basis but nevertheless decides to take Gigi under his wing. He becomes the voice of co-author Greg Behrendt, talking women down from their high strung obsessions and telling them the painful, but necessary, truth: “If a guy doesn’t seem like he gives a shit, then he genuinely doesn’t give a shit.”On the other hand...