Longtime Couples Get In Sync, In Sickness And In Health →
We think of aging as something we do alone, the changes unfolding according to each person's own traits and experiences. But researchers are learning that as we age in relationships, we change biologically to become more like our partners than we were in the beginning.
The Bible teaches that husbands and wives metaphorically become one flesh, but science is discovering there is also literal oneness in aging and disease.
(via PBS NewsHour)
Really, Bloomberg? 'Cause your site makes 141 HTTP connections for 6.8 MB of data and Ghostery cuts down the time it takes to load from 19.2 to 15.6 seconds with DomContentLoaded dropping by 8.6 seconds in my totally unscientific, inaccurate web performance test. Maybe check with your experts before posting web performance tips. And lose some page weight while you're talking to those experts. I'm not whitelisting Wired, I'm not whitelisting Forbes, and I'm not whitelisting you.
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1500 posts. I'd like to thank the Academy, my 107 followers (especially the three of whom I know), the four people who read but have never told me, my mother, and Tumblr for enabling my Internet addiction.
Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
— Muhammad Ali
In the Future, We Will Photograph Everything and Look at Nothing →
In other words, "the term 'photographer' is changing," [...]. As a result, photos are less markers of memories than they are Web-browser bookmarks for our lives. And, just as with bookmarks, after a few months it become hard to find photos or even to navigate back to the points worth remembering.
Curing Our Slack Addiction →
The thing is, being connected doesn't magically enable effective communication.
Politics unfortunately abounds in shams that must be treated reverentially for every politician who would succeed. If you are the sort of man whose stomach revolts against treating shams reverentially, you will be well advised to stay out of politics altogether and set up as a prophet; your prophecies may perhaps sow good seed for some future harvest. But as a politician you would be impotent. For at any given time the bulk of your countrymen believe firmly and devoutly, not only in various things that are worthy of belief, but also in illusions of one kind and another; and they will never submit to have their affairs managed for them by one who appears not to share in their credulity.
— British historian F.S. Oliver, 1935 (via The Atlantic)
