What I Am Reading
First hint that body’s ‘biological age’ can be reversed
“A small clinical study in California has suggested for the first time that it might be possible to reverse the body’s epigenetic clock, which measures a person’s biological age.”
Here's Why Uncertainty Makes You So Miserable
“I suspect that some meditative or religious practices which extoll the virtue of acknowledging only the present tense, or accepting our fate, might help reduce stress by attenuating our sensitivity to uncertainty,” he says. “Since uncertainty is about what’s going to happen in the future, if you’re completely absorbed in the present, then it seems likely that uncertainty will impact your stress less.”
Energy firm says its nuclear-waste fueled diamond batteries could last thousands of years
A cell phone power source that lasts nine years. An auto-battery pack that lasts nearly a century. A pacemaker that is powered to last 28,000 years. These surreal claims are being made by a California-based battery company that says successful early test results recently competed on a nano-diamond battery brings them closer to realizing such claims.
The key to their revolutionary batteries is radioactive nuclear waste. There are massive quantities of leftover nuclear waste from nuclear plant facilities. Such waste is extremely toxic, lasts thousands of years, and poses a challenge when it comes to disposing of it (burying and encasing it) safely.
What Does Boredom Do to Us—and for Us?
Humans have been getting bored for centuries, if not millennia. Now there’s a whole field to study the sensation, at a time when it may be more rampant than ever.
The online ‘work gyms’ that help spur productivity
It’s not always easy to be hyper-productive on your own. Could remote ‘work gyms’ be the answer to getting your best work done?
What I am Watching:
Cosmos: Possible Worlds
Following the wildly successful "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey," Neil deGrasse Tyson returns as host to translate more revelations of science into a lavish transporting experience, taking audiences on a series of spiritual voyages of exploration. The show reveals previously uncharted realms, including lost worlds, worlds yet to come, and the worlds that humans may one day inhabit. Ann Druyan, original creative collaborator to Carl Sagan, whose iconic docuseries "Cosmos" provided inspiration for this series, serves as executive producer alongside Seth MacFarlane.
Peter Lynch - When should you sell?
Peter Lynch, former manager of the Magellan Fund at Fidelity, answers a few questions during a 2002 interview with Louis Rukeyser.
Critical thinking is a 21st-century essential — here’s how to help kids learn it
If we want children to thrive in our complicated world, we need to teach them how to think, says educator Brian Oshiro. And we can do it with 4 simple questions.
What I am Listening To:
Listen to Everything You Need To Know About Discipline with Dr. Tina Payne Bryson from Raising Good Humans
Best Selling Author, Dr. Tina Payne Bryson, walks us through discipline from tots to teens!My wife and I have been trying some of this stuff out with our kids and it really works!
What I am Downloading:
Mimestream
A native macOS email client for Gmail. It’s still buggy but a much better alternative than the built in Mac Mail application.
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