“Keep your hearts open to making connections and being present with each other. Share joy or amplify it. “Support” is a verb, so give the gift of your attention to someone who is struggling. Seek out serendipitous encounters. The time that you spend outside the classroom may be just as meaningful as the time you spend within it, because what you will be building is a caring and connected community that will enrich your lives for decades to come.”
“There are parrots with larger vocabularies than most of us have concerning life in old age,” says the head of the MIT Age Lab. And he’s right. If we are beginning to spend one-third of our lives in the retirement stage, then we should have the benefit of thinking that meets us where we truly are.
Poor Phineas Gage. After a 3-foot-long rod shot through his skull, he became a deeply changed man. Discover how a 1848 railroad explosion led to a breakthrough in brain science.
Step aside, organ transplant. The biggest medical miracle of all just might be the face transplant, a high-stakes surgical swap that challenges everything we know about identity.
Lessons from the Barricades: A Story of French Pensions and American Echoes
Take it from CNBC superstar Sharon Epperson- “having the ‘money talk’ with your parents isn’t always an easy conversation, but it’s important to be clear about your own financial stability and theirs. Experts in elder law say… seniors are so vulnerable to financial exploitation in part because they are incredibly private about financial matters.”
Time’s up! You’ve just spent the last 24 hours counting every species of plant and animal in sight. Hard to believe you’ve found almost 2,000. Harder to believe is that you are smack dab in the middle of your local city park.
“Thump-thump” says your heart to a listening stethoscope. Everyone knows the telltale sound of a beating heart- or do they? Can a deaf cardiologist defy the odds and save babies from a killer heart condition known as blue baby syndrome?
Sabrina McLaughlin Smith 