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Psychologists say the adults who seem to age most gracefully in their seventies aren’t the ones who stayed busiest, they’re the ones who slowly gave themselves permission to stop auditioning for approval from people who were never going to hand it out

Psychologists say the adults who seem to age most ...

The people who seem to age most gracefully in their seventies aren't always the busiest. Often they ...
Much of the gold on Earth, in wedding rings and dental fillings and central bank reserve bars, was likely forged when neutron stars collided before the Sun existed, then scattered through space and swept up into the rock that became this planet

Much of the gold on Earth, in wedding rings and de...

Almost all of Earth's gold was forged in the collision of two neutron stars long before the solar sy...
Psychology says people who quietly leave family group chats, mute old friends, and stop replying to acquaintances aren’t withdrawing from life, they’re finally protecting the small amount of attention they have left for the people who actually reach back

Psychology says people who quietly leave family gr...

The quiet exit from a group chat looks like withdrawal. In our reading of the psychology, it is usua...
Psychologists explain that adults who dread the question ‘so what do you do?’ after retiring aren’t ashamed of leaving work, they’re grieving the fact that a single job title did most of their introducing for forty years

Psychologists explain that adults who dread the qu...

The dread of the retirement dinner-party question is not embarrassment about leaving work. It is the...
Quote by Anne Lamott: Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you

Quote by Anne Lamott: Almost everything will work ...

Anne Lamott's line about unplugging has become shorthand for rest, but the research on cognitive bre...
In 1912, a German meteorologist named Alfred Wegener stood in front of the Geological Association in Frankfurt and argued that the continents had once been joined and were still drifting apart, and geologists mocked him for the next forty years — until sonar maps of the Atlantic seafloor in the 1950s showed a ridge splitting exactly where he had drawn it

In 1912, a German meteorologist named Alfred Wegen...

In 1912 Alfred Wegener told a Frankfurt lecture hall the continents were still moving. Geologists di...
Psychology says people who apologise for taking up space in a conversation, in a photo, in a family group chat, aren’t humble, they learned early that being noticed came with a cost they couldn’t always afford

Psychology says people who apologise for taking up...

The reflex to apologise for existing, in photos, in chats, in conversation, is usually read as humil...
Psychology says the people who seem unbothered by criticism in their 60s aren’t thick-skinned, they’ve simply run out of energy to perform for audiences that were never going to be satisfied anyway

Psychology says the people who seem unbothered by ...

The calm of a person in their sixties often gets read as a thicker skin. The lifespan research on em...
The boiling river of the Peruvian Amazon runs hot enough to cook small animals that fall in, reaching 86 degrees Celsius along a four-mile stretch with no volcano within 700 kilometres to explain where the heat is coming from

The boiling river of the Peruvian Amazon runs hot ...

Scientists are baffled by a Peruvian river hot enough to kill animals instantly, with no geological ...
Assumption-reversal: for two centuries anatomists taught that adult human brains could not grow new neurons, until a Swedish neuroscientist named Peter Eriksson tested tissue from cancer patients who had been injected with a DNA tracer before death and found freshly dated cells in their hippocampi in 1998

Assumption-reversal: for two centuries anatomists ...

In 1998, a Swedish-American team examined the brains of five cancer patients who had received a DNA ...
In 1955, when a journalist asked Jonas Salk who owned the patent on his newly announced polio vaccine, he answered on live television that there was no patent — could you patent the sun? — a decision that cost him an estimated seven billion dollars and put the shot into the arms of hundreds of millions of children within a decade

In 1955, when a journalist asked Jonas Salk who ow...

On April 12, 1955, Jonas Salk told Edward R. Murrow on live television that no one owned the patent ...
At birth, a human infant has roughly 300 separate bones held together by cartilage that will slowly fuse; by adulthood only 206 remain, meaning the skull, spine, and pelvis you carry now are partly made of pieces that once moved independently while you learned to crawl

At birth, a human infant has roughly 300 separate ...

A newborn arrives with roughly 300 bones held together by cartilage, and an adult has 206. The missi...
In 1890, a German chemist named August Kekulé told a room of admirers he had dreamed of a snake biting its own tail and woken up knowing benzene must be a ring of six carbons, a structure so counterintuitive that chemists had spent forty years drawing it as a straight chain and failing every time

In 1890, a German chemist named August Kekulé told...

The famous ouroboros dream Kekulé described in 1890 arrived 25 years after his benzene paper and lef...
When Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev launched to the Mir station in May 1991 from Baikonur in the Kazakh SSR, he was a citizen of the Soviet Union, and when he finally landed 311 days later the country that sent him had dissolved, his home city of Leningrad had been renamed St Petersburg, and his monthly pay was worth almost nothing

When Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev launched to ...

Sergei Krikalev launched to Mir in May 1991 as a Soviet citizen and landed 311 days later in a count...
In 1868, a French astronomer studying a solar eclipse from India spotted a yellow spectral line at 587 nanometres that matched no element known on Earth, and the gas — named helium after the Greek word for the Sun — would not be isolated in a terrestrial laboratory for another 27 years

In 1868, a French astronomer studying a solar ecli...

During a six-minute solar eclipse over coastal India in 1868, French astronomer Pierre Janssen caugh...
Brazilian study identifies four Flavobacterium species in 11 aquaculture isolates

Brazilian study identifies four Flavobacterium spe...

Dangerous bacteria forming protective biofilms threaten Brazil's booming aquaculture industry, raisi...
UC Riverside physicists show thermal cameras could boost LIGO sensitivity by 31% and double its survey volume

UC Riverside physicists show thermal cameras could...

A simple thermal imaging trick could let gravitational-wave detectors spot cosmic collisions from tw...
Psychology says people who reread the same novels every few years aren’t stuck in nostalgia, they’re checking who they’ve become against a fixed emotional landmark that doesn’t move when they do

Psychology says people who reread the same novels ...

People who reread the same handful of novels every few years are not avoiding new books or clinging ...

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