Christie Aschwanden
Christie Aschwanden is an award-winning journalist and author of the New York Times best-seller Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery. She’s producer and co-host of “Emerging Form,” a podcast about the creative process. Previously the lead science writer at FiveThirtyEight, Aschwanden contributes to The Washington Post and The New York Times. Her work also appears in publications including Discover, Popular Science, Slate, Consumer Reports, New Scientist, Men’s Journal, Runner’s World, NPR, Smithsonian, and O, the Oprah Magazine. Aschwanden is a lifelong endurance athlete, having been a high school track star, collegiate cycling champion, and elite Nordic skier.
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Journalist Christie Aschwanden wrote the book "Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery."
Previously
2019 Festival
Fads Versus Facts: Busting Myths about Nutrition and Exercise
For decades, diet and exercise fads have promised to shrink waistlines, build muscle, detoxify, and so on. But evidence is mounting that there’s no one diet or routine that wo...
Video — 51m 57s
2015 Health
What Makes a Healthy Society? Measuring Public Health Success
A healthy society is about more than just preventing injuries and reducing the death toll from disease. It is also about having access to safe neighborhoods and affordable hou...
Audio — 56m