6 month ago
deusx : Experts: Middle Age is Depressing | LifeTwo - "The good news, and this was true across almost all 80 countries in the study, is that if you make it to aged 70 and are still physically fit, your are on average as "happy and mentally healthy as a 20-year old.""
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13 month ago
philgyford : LRB | Rosemary Hill : Keep Calm - An account of the Co-operative Correspondence Club (early 20C women's letter-writing distribution network). Also rather moving as the century continues and the women age.
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20 month ago
deusx : The Gaming Generation: Finding Time for Gaming, Even as an Adult from 1UP.com - "the first generation to grow up with videogames is all grown up"
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merlinmann : NPR : Does Age Quash Our Sense of Adventure? - "Could it be we lose our sense of adventure as we grow older?"
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27 month ago
deusx : Toward Immortality: The Social Burden of Longer Lives - Yahoo! News - "Notions about marriage, family and work will change in fundamental ways, they say, as will attitudes toward the young and the old."
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29 month ago
deusx : Elderbloggers Stake Their Claim - New York Times - "With a breadth of experience and perspective, older bloggers are staking out a place in the blogosphere a medium overwhelmingly dominated by the young."
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31 month ago
deusx : globeandmail.com : Better living through video games? - "Canadian researchers are finding evidence that the high-speed, multitasking of the young and wireless can help protect their brains from aging."
jkottke : Gamers show a "similar pattern of high performance in resisting irrelevant impulses" as bilingual people - Gamers show a "similar pattern of high performance in resisting irrelevant impulses" as bilingual people. "Maybe those kids who play video games and who are also bilingual will be the best of older adults at filtering out distractions." (via sjb) [via]
plasticbag : Better living through video games? - Apparently being bilingual or playing a lot of computer games keeps your brain responsive into your sixties allowing you to focus on specific things without getting distracted...
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34 month ago
Linkorama : designing for life stages - Three critical life stages in Western culture that affect a lot of our social technologies: The first is identity formation; the second is contributive participation in society; the third is reflection and storytelling.
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36 month ago
deusx : Mental declines can be reversed | Science Blog - "a researcher at the University of Alberta says most people have the ability to reverse the mental declines that come with aging."
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