by Francine Toder, Ph.D.
Absorbing the current neuroscience literature led me to the conclusion that novelty, complexity, and problem solving were the essential triad of ingredients necessary for maintaining brain vigor. Continue reading »
by Francine Toder, Ph.D.
Absorbing the current neuroscience literature led me to the conclusion that novelty, complexity, and problem solving were the essential triad of ingredients necessary for maintaining brain vigor. Continue reading »
by Lisa Peet
I liked the librarians I worked with. They were a smart, funny, cynical bunch, both erudite and technologically adept. All in all, it looked like a good racket. Publishing was going through a bad patch of simultaneous upheaval and constriction, and as I fired off a series of resumes that spring I began to realize how poorly my odd little niche job had equipped me for the marketplace. I needed a bump. Continue reading »
by Sonya Chung
The older we get, the more mistakes we’ve racked up . . . The question is: what do we do, how do we go forth, in the face of this inevitable accumulation of failures? Continue reading »
by Francine Toder
While anecdotal and unscientific, Kovic and her eighty-nine-year-old student saw and experienced first hand that old brains can, in fact, do some things as well or better than twenty-year-old brains. Continue reading »
by Joe Oestreich
Now, at 43, I’m not entirely sure we are youth-obsessed. Instead we seem to be intoxicated by potential and its riskier sidekick, upside. Continue reading »
by Swati Khurana
In fact, I am deeply nostalgic. These letters, these notes, even the faxes, were objects to hold, smell, caress, lick, fold, unfold, and cherish. Continue reading »
by Ben Fountain
Am I any smarter now? I dread the prospect of finding out, though at some point I’ll probably have to; that kind of risk is part of the deal any time we undertake a long piece of work. Second question: Were those years wasted? My sense is, yes and no. Continue reading »