Canadian scientists appear to have proven that you can, in fact, run away from old age. In what could stand up as the most powerful evidence yet that exercise prolongs life, a study by McMaster University researchers in Hamilton found that signs of premature aging were halted — and even reversed — in virtually every [...]
Archive for February, 2011
Exercise best anti-aging treatment, study suggests
Posted in Health on February 22, 2011 | Comments Off
Pick Your Cupid
Posted in Other on February 14, 2011 | Comments Off
Ji Lee, New York Times __________ Full article and photo: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/02/14/opinion/14oped-valentine.html
Crude reality
Posted in Editorials and opinion, Politics on February 13, 2011 | Comments Off
Will a Middle Eastern oil disruption crush the economy? New research suggests the answer is no — and that a major tenet of American foreign policy may be fundamentally wrong. For more than a month, the world has been riveted by scenes of protest in the Middle East, with demonstrators flooding streets from Tunisia to [...]
Uncommon knowledge
Posted in Uncommon knowledge, tagged February 13 2011 on February 13, 2011 | Comments Off
How class affects your brain Most of the kids who attend top colleges come from affluent families. As if that isn’t discouraging enough for kids from lower-class families, a new study at Northwestern University suggests that, even for kids who’ve already made it to a top university, coming from a lower-class background can wear them [...]
Don’t say it
Posted in The Word, tagged February 13 2011 on February 13, 2011 | Comments Off
The art of dodging bad words What could be more fun than mocking yesterday’s euphemisms? Open a copy of Mencken’s “The American Language” and you find our American forebears exclaiming “nerts!” (to avoid the naughty “nuts!”) and calling their legs “limbs” or “benders.” Then there are the benighted Brits, for whom Poe’s “The Gold Bug” [...]
Well worth not reading
Posted in Other on February 13, 2011 | Comments Off
Some of my favorite books are the ones I’ve never opened Like most readers, I love browsing in bookshops and libraries. I enjoy running my fingers along the spines of books and reading titles and authors’ names, pulling the books out and flipping through them, thinking about the stories inside them. I buy or borrow [...]
The Way Forward in Egypt
Posted in Editorials and opinion, Politics on February 11, 2011 | Comments Off
The U.S. risks ostracizing a regime that may yet hold on to power, while making common cause with an opposition that includes U.S. enemies. Is there a coherent explanation for the bizarre muddle that is the Obama administration’s policy toward Egypt? The charitable view is that the administration is deliberately speaking out of both sides [...]
Cloud control
Posted in Other on February 7, 2011 | Comments Off
Electrified sand. Exploding balloons. The long and colorful history of weather manipulation. This brutal winter has made sure that no one forgets who’s in charge. The snow doesn’t fall so much as fly. Cars stay buried, and feet stay wet. Ice is invisible, and every puddle is deeper than it looks. On the eve of [...]
An end or a beginning?
Posted in Editorials and opinion, Politics on February 5, 2011 | Comments Off
The upheaval in Egypt As Hosni Mubarak fights back, where Egypt’s revolt will go, and how far it will spread, are still unanswered questions IT IS the greatest drama to shake Egypt since the killing of Anwar Sadat in 1981. Huge nationwide protests have challenged the long rule of President Hosni Mubarak, threatening to dislodge [...]
