Category Archives: Happiness and Aging

The Science of Wisdom

By admin | Published: January 29, 2013
If you set out to learn a foreign language along with your kid, get ready for a provocative lesson about brain aging: At some point, you’re likely to find yourself falling ever farther behind, laboriously struggling to implant new words in your plainly decayed memory while your youngster absorbs them like animal crackers. But the [...]
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More on Demi, Ashton and Aging

By admin | Published: February 21, 2011
If you’re tracking developments in aging research, don’t miss the issue of National Enquirer that hit newsstands today (dated Feb. 28)—it contains a full-page spread based on the Ashton-Demi Gerontology Seminar on the Beach that graced celebrity news outlets last week. You might also want to take a look at the related piece I did [...]
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And They Lived Pretty Happily Ever After

By admin | Published: June 11, 2010
The sages of yore have generally held that later life is a time of miserable decline. “How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete,” lamented the Roman poet Juvenal. After youth’s ripening, “we rot and rot,” Shakespeare famously wrote. The almost laughably gloomy Schopenhauer added that “as we [...]
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