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Young people are losing their advantage when it comes to IQ.
Feminist podcasts are having a moment. An expert reflects on 12 of them, from The Guilty Feminist and Feminist Book Club to podcasts that explore women’s lives and stories.
In 1993, Joel sang, ‘These are the last words I have to say.’ What changed?
Only a small fraction of women have received any financial education at all.
There’s a surprising amount of crossover in what things help human and dog longevity.
Many years beyond the average American retirement age, politicians vie for power and influence. Their constituents tend to prefer they step back and pass the torch to younger people.
Tiredness of life is a distinct form of suffering in which life seems stripped of meaning.
COVID-19 is the third-leading cause of death in Canada, but it’s older people who are dying. That we accept this and carry on as if the pandemic is over reveals our ageism: We don’t value older people.
Labels that reflect our gender, racial or age-specific biases can often undermine others.
In a 1959 essay, Capote noted how Avedon seemed to capture ‘every hard-earned crow’s foot’ in his subjects – perhaps not realizing that he would one day be photographed by that same unvarnished gaze.
The oldest person in the world, Kane Tanaka of Japan, died in April 2022 at 119 years. The record of Jeanne Calment of France, who died at 122, has stood for almost 25 years. Will it be beaten?
Do you know someone who’s had lots of birthdays? That doesn’t always make them old.
Better knowledge of the right training strategies is one reason more athletes are continuing to compete longer than they used to.
Nasty, brutish – but not necessarily short. Here’s how archaeologists know plenty of people didn’t die young.
Kindergartners who are relatively younger than their classroom peers are at risk for doing less well in school. A clinical psychologist explains how to reduce those problems.
Teen boys who date adult women tend to experience their relationships differently than girls who date older men.
Over 130 hours of conversations with older people reveal the truth of what it’s like to get old and how to cope with loneliness.
Jeanne Calment of France died in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days. That record will be broken this century, statistical models suggest.
A developmental psychologist explains how a period of life that’s often hectic and stressful can also end up being quite rewarding.
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Reader in Education with Psychology and Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
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University Academic Fellow, Sociology, University of Leeds
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Professor of Education and Social Justice, Monash University
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Honorary Research Associate, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate professor of work and employment, University of Southampton
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Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, University of Bath
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Director, Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development, University of Southern Queensland
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NHMRC Senior Lecturer, School of Medical Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Dean of the Faculty of Social, Human and Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton
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Professor of Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Positive Health Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Professor of Human Biology, Loughborough University
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Professor of Healthy Ageing, Australian Catholic University
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