Ralph Benko is a senior economic advisor to the American Principles Project, and is the author of The Websters' Dictionary: How to Use the Web to Transform the World.
In his intriguing book, Why Things Bite Back, author Edward Tenner shows how the use of technology to make life better often has unexpected and ugly consequences.
"One of the things that's remarkable is how similar we use feathers to the way birds do, " the author observed.
He was also the lead author of the influential (but controversial) 1999 New England Journal of Medicine DECREASE study on the use of bisoprolol during vascular surgery.
Cynthia Ewer, the Washington state-based editor of OrganizedHome.com and the author of " The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Organized Fast-Track, " suggests we use this in-between-holidays week to step back and reflect on our habits and how well they're working for us at home.
He is also co-author of The Market Gurus: Stock Investing Strategies You Can Use From Wall Street's Best.
Any erosion of airplane-maintenance quality is worrisome, the author says, but at regional airlines, which tend to use smaller planes that have less margin for error, the erosion is positively alarming.
Author readings, question and answer sessions and community reading projects are other ways to use the wires for connecting.
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"Density and street connectivity also matter, but mixed use is the most important factor relating to physical activity and obesity, " said lead author Lawrence Frank , now a professor at the University of British Columbia.
But they do not call the authors of the posts names and they do not use rude speech, particularly when rude speech is written in the course of criticizing the author of the post or any of the people who have come to comment on the post.
The Art of the Start makes lavish use of tables and how-to lists, which in most books is lazy-author Power-Point fodder.
"Facebook likes have a meaning that we can use to understand the psychology behind what people do, " says David Stillwell, a co-author of the study.
The study was produced with the University of York and the survey's co-author, Jonathan Bradshaw, said it "establishes a valuable benchmark that we can use to track changes in well-being over time".
The phrase nature deficit disorder was coined in 2005 by author Richard Louv, who argued that the human cost of "alienation from nature" was measured in "diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses".
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