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- Super ager brains have supersize memory cells. The neurons around the brain responsible for memory are significantly larger in super agers than they are in their peers and even in individuals 20 to 30 years younger. These neurons also tend to be free of so-called tau tangles, the webs of proteins that collect inside neurons in the brains of people
Jeanne Dorin McDowell • Celebrating What's Right With Aging: Inside the Minds of Super Agers
A new therapy for Ukraine’s scarred soldiers: ketamine from TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/01/15/a-new-therapy-for-ukraines-scarred-soldiers-ketamine
Craig Newmark of Craigslist Has a New Mission: Saving Democracy
Alexandra Tremayne-Pengellyobserver.com
Banks and other industries have “know your customer” rules so that they can’t do business with anonymous clients laundering money from criminal enterprises. Large social-media platforms should be required to do the same. That does not mean users would have to post under their real names; they could still use a pseudonym. It just means that before a... See more
Jonathan Haidt • Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
Where do Americans mingle? from TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/09/07/where-do-americans-mingle... See more
This article made me smile and think of the UK equivalent.
From the article.
"In theory, Americans ought to encounter each other in public... See more
We send people away for years, tell them exactly what to do every day and they get to make exacrly one choice every day: do you obey or not? That's the only choice you get to make. Then, after 3, 5, 10 years, we send them out into society and tell them, "Make better choices." But we haven't prepared them for that at all. We have given them almost... See more