19th August '08Today's Top Blog Posts on Senior Life
1. Of Serotonin and Spirituality
Serotonin, the brain chemical crucial to mood and motivation, also shapes personality to make you susceptible to spiritual experiences.
2. Eating Less May Slow Aging Process in Middle-Aged People
Studies have long shown that reducing calorie intake slows the aging process in rats and mice. Considering the studies didn’t involve humans, this didn’t motivate us to start dieting. Now, scientists have discovered…
3. O fridge, my fridge
I think my fridge has a lesson or two to teach me about aging gracefully. I’ve decided to adopt a wait and see attitude about my fridge. I don’t have any fear of its eventual success or failure. I suppose my love of…
4. Share Your Emergency Room Experience
Yesterday, my daughter and I finally decided it was time to go to the hospital because our conditions weren’t getting any better. We ended up in the Emergency Room at Duke Medical Center. I brought excerpts from my…
5. Can we laugh at Obama jokes?
I’m changing my mind about the New Yorker magazine’s controversial Muslim cover. My first reaction was anger. How could the New Yorker, a liberal magazine, be so stupid! Visuals reinforce stereotypes.But, if the…
6. Review: Omnivore’s Dilemma
i’ve talked about Michael Pollan’s book The Omnivore’s Dilemma before, but since I recently reread it, I thought I would officially review it here on 60 in 3.What Is This Book All About?The Omnivore’s Dilemma is…
7. Fed Head Says Economy Dead; Recession Spreads Worldwide; Bush Unfazed
THE ONION GETS IT:WASHINGTON—A panel of top business leaders testified before Congress about the worsening recession Monday, demanding the government provide Americans with a new irresponsible and largely illusory…
8. Beast Seeks Beauty: Josef Fritzl Asks Guard for Anti-Ageing Face Cream
[q url=”http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/07/15/josef-fritzl-asks-prison-doctor-for-anti-ageing-face-cream-89520-20643940/”]Cellar monster Josef Fritzl has asked his prison doctor for a supply of anti-ageing…
9. Age beautifully
Anthony David came to the NEWS 9 studio with a few tips on easy ways for ageing women to keep their face looking young each morning.
10. Curing aging does not make cryonics redundant
But one perspective that is sometimes voiced by futurists is that cryonics is a rational backup plan until aging is cured. This position has some serious shortcomings and potentially lethal implications. Human…
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11. Breakfast Cereals, Part 2
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I wonder if any Boomer kid in the US ever grew up without breakfast cereal in the morning? Sure, some days we would be treated with Cream of Wheat, Malt-O-Meal, or perhaps full-blown bacon and eggs, but by and large…
12. The Economics of Signing Up for Cryonics
Via Marginal Revolution:If [cryonics] works, the benefits are high, and the probability of it working is greater than zero. Yet few people sign up for it. I think that we are afraid of looking weird if we sign up for…
13. HOLIDAY CURSE
I don’t know what it is – and maybe it is nothing more than coincidence, fate or paranoia – but every time I seriously consider somewhere as a potential holiday destination, whether the country of my dreams is…
14. Mugabe’s murderous plan
While the laughable “talks” about a peaceful solution to the political crisis stutter on, and while the general level of violence and fear ratchets up across the country, the military junta behind Mugabe move on…
15. Low-carb diets reduce oxidative stress
Aubrey de Grey (here, here and here) is an iconoclastic anti-aging researcher living in Cambridge, UK who approaches the science of anti-aging medicine from an engineering perspective (requires free registration). …
