bird’s flesh
Around eight years ago, scientists found that mice cleared of senescent cells lived 25% longer than untreated ones. They also had healthier hearts and took much longer to develop age-related diseases like cancer and cataracts. They even looked younger. Unfortunately, human trials of senolytics—drugs that target senescent cells—haven’t been quite as successful. […] it does illustrate how complicated the biology of aging is. Researchers can’t even agree on what the exact mechanisms of aging are and which they should be targeting. […] people who have opted for cryopreservation. There are hundreds of bodies in storage—bodies of people who believed they might one day be reanimated. For them, the hopes are slim. I asked Justice whether she thought they stood a chance at a second life. “Honest answer?” she said. “No.” […] In a 2017 paper making the case for a limit to the human life span, scientists Jan Vijg and Eric Le Bourg wrote […] “A species does not need to live for eternity to thrive.”
World’s oldest man says ‘it’s just luck’
Five ways the brain can age: 50,000 scans reveal possible patterns of damage
Children can’t seem to stop themselves from gathering more information than they need to complete a task, even when they know exactly what they need. […] even when children successfully learn how to focus their attention on a task to earn small rewards such as stickers, they still “over explore” and don’t concentrate just on what is needed to complete their assignment. […] the more likely explanation is that working memory is not fully developed in children. That means they don’t hold information they need to complete a task in their memory for very long, at least not as long as adults.
5-Year-Old Kid Hits 194 MPH in Lamborghini Revuelto
Don’t trust Google for customer service numbers. It might be a scam.
Telegram does not end-to-end encrypt conversations by default […] activating end-to-end encryption in Telegram is oddly difficult for non-expert users
Reddit Battles Meta and Google Using Ads Based on Topics — Not Your Data Unlike many of its much larger advertising competitors, including Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Meta Platforms Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., Reddit has mostly anonymous users. […] users who don’t identify themselves tend to be more open and honest with their posts and their interests
A weird, whimsical game is hiding in the bookshelves at Los Angeles Public Library
