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And Now For Something Completely Different:
Somehow in their infinite-power, Wired has managed to wrangle the best doctor ever to answer some health questions.
“The Hangover”-series crazy-man, Ken Jeong!
And although he’s a bit more serious here than in his roles as Mister Chow, or Ben Chang on cult-hit TV-show “Community”, he’s still a lot of fun…
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The Fountain Of Youth:
Since the time of the alchemists, the ancient Egyptians, and the epic of Gilgamesh, one of our main goals was to transcend the impermanence of existence.
And in that time, people have tried all kinds of nutty concoctions & medieval procedures to try. (leeches do kinda work, btw)
More recently, the advent of stem-cell science has been joined by another major discovery: the “rewritable” part of our DNA script.
Well, a Salk Institute team combined them with a Nobel-Prize-winning discovery to give Father Time a swift kick in the butt. -Or at least one that lasts a few decades…
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Oh God, This Sounds Like An Infomercial.:
We’ve told you before that for fat loss or weight loss Nutrition is king.
We’ve also told you that the slow-carb diets are the ones that pay the greatest returns over time, too.
And we’ve also recruited cast-iron triathletes and anorexic movie-stars to help convince you that you cannot out-exercise bad nutrition.
Well, the Danes came up with a neat footer to the one that says you can exercise too much,
And somehow, it says you may need less exercise than you ever thought…
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With the New Year approaching soon and marathons over recently, I agree with BuzzFeed that a few pick-me-ups of sadly-accurate exercise humor is just what the doctor ordered to psych you up for all your Get-in-shape resolutions & new gym memberships!
And your trainer (or WebMD’s Fit-O-Meter) should Absolutely be able to tell you how many calories you’ve burned sliding down that wall crying.
Now check out the other 18!…
Well, Nat Geo has started putting on a new series, and it’s right in-line with just about everything this site would ever hope to be about. -Just in video format.
It’s on Sundays, 9/8C and we’re already starting to get to the good stuff like, “More Than Human”, “Decoding The Brain”, and “The Age of Aging”.
So, while you’re waiting for the next installment, check out their trippily-animated, Hayden Planetarium-meets-Minority Report-On-LSD website.
A linked-list of the major sections is below, to help you sift through & target the content you’d like to check out…
In this video, The Science Of Us talks about an interesting set of clinical discoveries made by Dr. Gabriele Oettingen on the way we think about change & success.
Despite decades of post-hippie-era positive-thinking advice. The path to those improvements it turns out, is a little more complicated.
And in-fact, what we all might need is of all things, A little Pessimism…
Up until now, scientists couldn’t do that much with an fMRI besides sniff out liars. -Well all that just changed, in a big way.
A team lead by Yale researchers has not only found a new use for it, but delved right into the scary and unfair depths of The Biological “Self”.
Their scanner + human connectome big-data invention is nothing short of a digital Sorting Hat, like in the Harry Potter movies.
-Oh yeah, (much like the 2012 work by WUMinn) it can also figure out +/- exactly how smart you are…
Apparently 60 Is The New 30, If Your Name Is Yazemeenah [+UPDATED!]:
With all due respect to previous queen, Helen Mirren and her fabulous rack, I think we have a new winner here.
It is always a thrill to see someone out there with that Dick Clark Immortality-Factor who is living everything this site hopes to be about.
And as a 59-year-old mother of 2, grandmother of 2, and a girl who Started modeling at 28!, she’s a case-study in good habits meet good genetics.
SO, Takeaways: What can we tease out of what she says in the source-articles about her secrets to eternal youth that are good tips for…
