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I just read a piece on some fascinating neuroscience: the single best way to keep your brain young isn’t supplements, puzzles, or obsessing over your sleep score. It’s creativity. Not “I took a pottery class once in 1997” creativity. Real, regular, slightly uncomfortable creativity—music, art, dance, even strategy-based games. Researchers found that people who engage ...
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He’d been the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, in the Continental Congress, the second Governor of Virginia, and the nation’s first Secretary of State, but he was also
June 5, 2021
Lastly, many social observers have suggested younger entrepreneurs see the economy as akin to a trampoline as opposed to a ladder and memes can be a productive tool in unlocking
June 4, 2021
This is not unusual as there are many developing countries in the world that have fewer than one psychiatrist per one million people. At a time when suicide is rampant
June 3, 2021
Will never forget my visit there in 1981 and the momentous film Russian Ark that gave the world a view into this fantastical monument. As we get older, we may
June 2, 2021
Through the film, we’ve been able to stoke national conversations around the importance of intergenerational care while shining a spotlight on a cultural issue that too few want to see:
June 1, 2021
But, as this graphic shows, peaking happens throughout our entire life. And good for us that a lot of it happens at 50 or after—arithmetic skills (50), understanding people’s emotions
May 30, 2021
1. You take pride in saying you’ll be “forever young.” Counter response: In reality, you know you won’t. What are you pretending not to know? 2. You describe minor forgetfulness
May 29, 2021
Not only that, but coast redwoods have been on the planet for more than 240 million years. That means they’ve been around since the time of dinosaurs. When it comes
May 28, 2021
Bloomberg reports that 2.7 million Americans aged 55+ are contemplating retirement years earlier than they’d imagined because of the pandemic. Blame it on endless Zooms, the soaring stock and real
May 27, 2021
Japan is the “grayest” nation in the world, with close to 30% of the population over 65. The reason is its low birthrate, which has caused the population to contract
May 26, 2021
The results, the researchers write, reveal “a uniquely challenging prejudice.” Ageism turned out to be a difficult prejudice to neutralize because even fervent anti-prejudice advocates found ways to legitimize the
May 25, 2021
But, if you looked at the world during the Great Influenza (“the Spanish flu”) back in 1918, you wouldn’t have expected what we’re seeing today. While we’ve had more than
May 24, 2021
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