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Businesses often spend money on politically correct solutions that don’t lead to anything.
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If terminal patients were made more comfortable with the process they’re going through, perhaps fewer would be interested in assisted suicide.
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The ideal situation for an older person is to cut back on their work requirements while still remaining engaged.
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One of the most effective ways of preserving your brain function as you get older is to stay healthy. Physical activity plays a role in preventing many diseases.
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When it comes to intercourse, one of the biggest issues for elderly people is finding a partner. But the meaningfulness that sex and social engagement bring to life can be […]
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A conversation with the associate professor in the department of geriatrics at Mt. Sinai.
Octopus and hidden cameras go together like chocolate and peanut butter. You never know what those crazy cephalopods will get up to. Today, Boing Boing dug up some neat old […]
Heat death is a deceptive name. As Michio Kaku explains, entropy doesn't necessarily refer to dramatic destruction; it's more about how stuff just tends to fall apart.
New statistical analysis finds that all life on Earth shares a single common ancestor, confirming a "central pillar of evolutionary theory."
Vast quantities of dispersant chemicals have been sprayed into the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico to reduce environmental damage. But there's little knowledge about their possible impact.
"Millions of workers who have already been unemployed for months, if not years, will most likely remain that way even as the overall job market continues to improve," writes Catherine Rampell.
Could business executives learn from the test that London taxi drivers take? Stephen Adshead writes that the process teaches conflict management and the benefit of humility.
"The government's current policy to leave a great deal of its liabilities off-balance sheet makes the U.S.'s current debt levels look a lot more favorable than they really are," writes Daniel Indiviglio.
The tea party movement has become "an insta-network for ambitious women," writes Hanna Rosin. "Some would surprise you with their straightforward feminist rage."
Western-style Holocaust denial—the attempt to produce pseudo-scientific proofs that the Jewish genocide did not happen—is not that common in the Arab world, writes Gilbert Achcar.
"Nowadays a specimen of unkempt, puffed-up prose or stumbling, lugubrious verse doesn't even need to make it past an editor or publisher to glide slimily" into our awareness, writes Laura Miller.
New research into the brain provides intriguing information about the neural activity associated with moments of sudden insight.
"The world remains inexplicably indifferent and uncurious" about the deadly nature of Communism, writes Claire Berlinski. "For evidence of this indifference, consider the unread Soviet archives."
So what are we to make of the new British coalition Government that made its appearance, in the shape of David Cameron and Nick Clegg, in the 10 Downing Street […]
Sick of hearing about a slow-moving sheet of oil floating about in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico? You may not be alone. According to The New Republic‘s Bradford […]