Lonesome George, the Galapagos tortoise died this week at the age of around 100 years. But even he didn’t reach his species longest age north of 200 years. What a symbol of longevity those creatures. I’d like to hear the story of the one who lived the maximum. Maybe he knew Charles Darwin. A necropsy
Care banking for your older age, what an innovative idea! Care4Care is a new UK initiative piloted in March 2012 on the Isle of Wight; a collaboration between the Young Foundation and Professor Heinz Wolff. Check out the web site for the full story, but essentially it’s about people of any age helping those of
One of the best examples of a new lab dedicated to thinking, research and innovation on aging and brain health is Toronto’s Baycrest Centre . It’s partnership with MaRS and affiliation with the U of T Rotman Research Institute and other collaborators around the world has produced some amazing work. Baycrest sheds positive light on
New thinking. Creativity. Innovation. Everyone’s talking this way about absolutely everything, and the forum for exploration, ingenuity and product development is seen as being in the “new labs” where whatever issues in discussion are pitched like experiments. The Coffee Houses of the 18th century were labs for new thinking as were discussion clubs like the