Addition by subtraction is a curious phenomenon. It occurs in politics, for a timely example, when a reduced field of candidates helps voters and media focus more attention on those who remain. It happens in other professions and walks of…
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Older adults should become leaders of the environmental movement. Imagine the incongruity. The population with the least amount of remaining time on the planet would be those who care the most about humankind’s survival for generations to come. In this…
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The problem with older adults is not that their percentage of the population is increasing rapidly. The problem is society does not understand this demographic shift is really an opportunity. This longevity dividend means more people with more time, resources…
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“There are lies, damned lies and statistics,” Mark Twain famously warned. The misrepresentation of statistics is sport in American culture, most obviously and abusively in politics and advertising. Surprising, though, is the arbitrariness with which some statistics are misstated by…
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“Don’t underestimate the ingenuity of humankind,” writes Michael Milken, chairman of The Milken Institute, in the foreword to the new book The Upside of Aging. Milken compares the original sequencing of the human genome, which took 13 years and cost…
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