Yourdiseaserisk.com is still a little slow - a recent WSJ article overwhelmed it with traffic - but I had great fun altering my lifestyle choices to see how they affected my risk for various catastrophic illnesses, such as stroke, heart disease, diabetes, etc. (It's like working for a life insurance company.) The site comes with good credentials, too: it was designed by the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention. What have I learned so far? Nothing too surprising: not smoking and getting a basic amount of exercise drastically reduce your chances of getting just about every disease.
Profile
Jonah Lehrer is a contributing editor at Wired. He's also written for The New Yorker, Seed, Nature, and the New York Times and is a contributor to Radiolab. He's the author of Proust Was A Neuroscientist. His new book is How We Decide.
My Books
Search
Recent Posts
- Goodbye Scienceblogs
- Twitter Strangers
- Stress
- Smart Babies
- Political Dissonance
- Will I?
- Cages and Cancer
- Soda
- LSD
- Alcoholism
Archives
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
« In Memory of Clifford Geertz | Main | Divided Government is Better »
My New Favorite Website
Category: Culture
Posted on: November 1, 2006 11:18 AM, by Jonah Lehrer
Trackbacks
Trackback URL for this entry: http://scienceblogs.com/mt/pings/24840
Post a Comment
(Email is required for authentication purposes only. On some blogs, comments are moderated for spam, so your comment may not appear immediately.)
