{"title":"Rowan Jacobsen","description":"Rowan Jacobsen writes about science and nature and the less-explored corners of the world for Harper's, Outside, The Atlantic, Scientific American, Smithsonian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, MIT Technology Review, Businessweek, and others, and his work has been anthologized in The Best American Science \u0026amp; Nature Writing and other collections. He has received awards from the James Beard Foundation, the Society of American Travel Writers, and the Overseas Press Club. He is the author of nine books, including A Geography of Oysters, Fruitless Fall, and Truffle Hound, several of which have been named to Best Book of the Year lists by The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, NPR, and Publishers Weekly. He has performed with Pop-Up Magazine, lectured at Harvard and Yale, and appeared on CBS, NBC, and NPR. He has been an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow, writing about endangered diversity on the borderlands between India, Myanmar, and China; a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, focusing on the environmental and evolutionary impact of synthetic biology; and a Nova Media Fellow, researching the science of sun exposure.","products":[{"product_id":"in-defense-of-sunlight-the-surprising-science-of-sun-exposure-hardcover","title":"In Defense of Sunlight: The Surprising Science of Sun Exposure - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUpending everything we thought we knew about sun exposure, this trenchant investigation into the \"zero-sun policy\" sounds the call on the many health benefits of the sun, and what we risk when we minimize our exposure.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA quiet revolution is transforming our understanding of sunlight's effects on human health. 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