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"What is behind the CrossFit need, which is a variation of compulsive intense training?"
Thomas Beller says: "The answer moves along several parallel axes." The link goes to The New Yorker as you might have surmised based on: 1…
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"Back then, I wrote all day, getting up at five. By this time, I rise scratchy at six or twitch in bed until seven."
"I drink coffee before I pick up a pen. I look through the newspaper. I try to write all morning, but exhaustion shuts me down by ten o’clock. I…
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The pro-McCain argument that older is better.
Ronald Rotunda makes the pitch: Older people can use both sides of their brain together, which gives them an advantage. As [Dr. Gene Cohen, director …
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"Maturity is moving from the close-up to the landscape, focusing less on your own supposed strengths and weaknesses and more on the sea of empathy in which you swim, which is the medium necessary for understanding others, one’s self, and survival."
David Brooks attempts an aphorism, ending a column aimed at distinguishing between introspection and narcissism . Style point: Shouldn't it be se…
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"The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there."
"The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are …
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I almost forgot! It's my bloggiversary!
I'm surprised that slipped my mind. Maybe because I turned 60 on the 12th. And I don't mean I'm getting old and therefore forgetful. I ju…
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It's harder to make friends when you're older because you're less likely to have the 3 conditions needed...
... conditions that were so much more likely to be there when you were in college : proximity; repeated, unplanned interactions; and a setting that e…
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"I was never thrilled about the actual name 'Dad,' which in American culture is someone who tells bad jokes and wears socks with sandals."
"He is Lord of the Grill and the Duke of Fix-it. He’s the best of the 'good guys,' but when it comes to the nitty-gritty of parenting, &…
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"I have just never been interested in sex."
"I imagine there is a lot of hassle involved and I have always been busy doing other things." So says Clara Meadmore , Britain's oldest…
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"The Dutch Village Where Everyone Has Dementia."
"The town of Hogeway, outside Amsterdam, is a Truman Show -style nursing home."
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"When You're Strange" is a new documentary about The Doors.
And promoting it, here 's what's left of The Doors. Old, but — Morrisonless — decidedly not strange.
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The Jonathan in that Boer War photograph is probably not the Jonathan that lives today -- fraudulently honored as the world's oldest creature.
"Since they have several giant tortoises on St Helena, they simply named the next largest one Jonathan. The date of 175 years old is being assum…
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"Are you over 50 and enjoying life? Then you may well be a mappie."
"The acronym stands for Mature, Affluent, Pioneering People and has been coined to describe a growing social group of active, fun-loving fifty- …
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"To live intensely, as he wanted, would speed up the illness and shorten the life available."
"In 1901 at forty-one, now ill beyond any denial and forced to live in the warm climate of the Black Sea, Chekhov married a lively and successfu…
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That semi-starvation diet that was supposed to make you live longer — based on monkey experiments?
After 25 years, the results are in: The starved monkeys didn't live any longer than the unstarved monkeys. Cancer, heart disease — again, no dif…
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"Proponents of the arts have long argued that creative therapy can help ageing patients."
"Now, scientists have begun investigating that claim." "The healthcare system really needs to pay attention much more than it has in t…
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Stephen Colbert's opening question to Justice Breyer: "What's it like to be a Supreme Court Justice? Is it a good job?"
Breyer's answer is that it's a great benefit — especially as you get older — to have a job that requires you to do your best "every sing…
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Only human brains shrink with age.
"We are very weird animals... Among neuroscientists, the assumption has been that species are all the same, but this shows there is something re…
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Woody Allen's favorites of his own films are "The Purple Rose of Cairo," "Match Point," and "Husbands and Wives"...
... with "Stardust Memories" and "Zelig" at the second rank: He expresses bafflement over the high regard in which “Annie Hall” a…
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"We’ve been a pretty youth-oriented generation."
"We haven’t idealized growing up and getting mature in the same way that other cohorts have." Efforts to explain why Baby Boomers are killi…
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