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By The Artful Age Editorial Team · Sep 10, 2026
Fleming came back from the First World War focused on the problem of infection, and he spent the next decade studying…
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Ran Kivetz and Anat Keinan found that regret over choosing work above pleasure grows with time while guilt over…
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Retirement is usually described as the moment purpose disappears
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Sep 10
Quote by Anne Lamott: Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you
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Sep 9
Things Grandparents Do That Give Children Their Happiest Memories
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Sep 9
If You Have Achieved These Things by Age 70, You Have Had a Great Life
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Sep 9
The Things Women Notice About Older Men That They Never Admit
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Sep 8
She wants the space, he wants a hug
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The Tunguska blast in 1908 knocked down tens of millions of trees in a radial pattern larger than Greater London, and…
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Ten separate research teams spent years analysing samples from Scott and Mark Kelly, and their combined finding was…
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Strategies for inner peace: stop fighting your feelings, and keep coming back to the present
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A 16-year study of more than 23,000 older Americans found health predicts who keeps their friends more reliably than…
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The truth about older men who live alone
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Take risks to move forward: why we skip the ones worth taking, and how to tell them apart
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This too will pass: the proverb is a comfort in hard times and a reason to savor the good ones
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Sep 8
When you have a kid you need to be more mature, but not in the way most people mean
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Sep 7
Lake Nyos in Cameroon sits inside a 210-metre-deep volcanic crater at 1,091 metres altitude, and for decades carbon…
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In 1928, an English researcher named Fred Griffith noticed one strain of pneumonia bacteria could permanently transform…
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In 1974, humans sent their first message to the stars from a radio telescope in Puerto Rico, aimed at a cluster 25,000…
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Archaeologists long assumed prehistoric people only passed briefly through the Pyrenees above 2,000 metres, but a cave…
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