http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 25 May 2013 03:26:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://boingboing.net/2013/01/25/this-is-why-your-office-feels.html http://boingboing.net/2013/01/25/this-is-why-your-office-feels.html#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:11:15 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=208361 My newest column for The New York Times Magazine explores the different cultural definitions of pleasant living…, how those traditions affect energy use in different countries, and how globalization changes both the]]> My newest column for The New York Times Magazine explores the different cultural definitions of pleasant living, how those traditions affect energy use in different countries, and how globalization changes both the culture and the fossil fuel consumption. Fun fact: Engineers have a unit of measurement that helps them account for clothing when they're trying to figure out what temperature an office building should be. It's called the Clo, and 1 Clo is equivalent to one full business suit. As I discovered, that fact has a big impact on women, business people in the tropics, and basically anybody who doesn't wear a suit to work. ]]> http://boingboing.net/2013/01/25/this-is-why-your-office-feels.html/feed 31