Fairphone will last long
Guaranteed Android support
For eight years or more

#fairphone #android #lifespan #haiku #poetry

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/fairphone-5-sets-a-new-standard-with-8-10-years-of-android-support/

Cancer screenings not
Extra years of life to gain
But still important

#cancer #screenings #lifespan #importance #haiku #poetry

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/28/health/cancer-screenings-extend-life-wellness/index.html

Five-year old gerbil

Gerbils must be kept in pairs or in a group. Unfortunately, his partner passed away a few months ago after living together for more than four years and a half 😢

Gerbil’s lifespan is 3-4 years in captivity. Both gerbils were well-beyond their lifespan, so, we decided not to introduce another gerbil 🤔

Although he is slower and sleeps longer than before, he still got energy, destroying any paperboard to make his own bedding 😊

#Gerbil #SmallAnimal #LifeSpan #Aging

#Lifespan

Children growing up in more socioeconomically disadvantaged families and neighborhoods and children from marginalized racial/ethnic groups exhibit DNA methylation profiles that are indicative of lower cognitive functioning and a faster pace of biological aging.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36459657

#NICHDImpact #DNA #HealthDisparities #Lifespan #Poverty #SES #Aging

Today's poem:

All the World's a Stage
- by William Shakespeare

(from As You Like It, spoken by Jaques)

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/725248572238495744/all-the-worlds-a-stage?source=share

#school #childhood #ageing #poetry #shakespeare #lifespan #SevenAges

It is the BEST THING EVER to see someone investigate a research question you've always had, but do it better than you could've ever done.

Check out Melanie Weireich and Adrian Simpson's #ICPhS2023 paper, "Changes in parents' phonetic parameters during the first year of a child's life: A comparative study of German and Swedish"

Fascinating correlations, and lack thereof, between femininity self-rating of fathers and mothers, and their f0 production over time.

#sociophonetics #lifespan

These 8 #Science-backed #Habits Could Significantly Increase Your #Lifespan

https://www.inverse.com/health/8-science-backed-habits-could-significantly-increase-lifespan
Taking #responsibility for our own #health can seem daunting. But it doesn’t have to be.

COVID evolving past RAT detection + more asymptomatic infections?

Here's a study that RATs miss 90%(!!) of asymptomatic infections: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M23-0385

When China was still doing zero COVID, we saw that the vast majority of cases were asymptomatic (~98%!): https://www.reuters.com/world/china/why-are-shanghais-covid-infections-nearly-all-asymptomatic-2022-03-29/

All things being equal, asymptomatic cases or cases that elude RATs (at least the initial round) will cause more transmission as we have resumed 'normal' now, except for the COVID-careful.

This would favor these variants over others that get detected by RATs or cause acute infection symptoms.

Unfortunately, acute symptoms are no predictor of degree of internal damage and future lifespan reducing issues with strokes, liver, brain, kidneys, etc

But they do allow minimizers/deniers to further ignore the catastrophe and blame
#AnythingButCovid for the increased deaths and #lifespan reduction

Dangerous times indeed!

It also means that the case/hospitalization numbers may be even more understated than ever (20x, 25x?)

#ZeroCovid
#CovidIsNotOver
#COVIDisAirborne
#WearARespirator

h/t https://zeroes.ca/@DenisCOVIDinfoguy@aus.social

Treadmills to use with a standing desk. Intrigued by the concept. Any experiences? Is walking all day on them doable? My (online) research thus far: cheap “Walking Pads” to be found on Amazon are to be avoided. #Lifespan is a decent brand, but it made their products worse recently. The #InMovement Unsit is excellent, but is not available in the EU. #Walkation sells purely mechanical German hand made versions that weigh 85 kg+ and have lifetime warranty, but they cost as much as a small car.

Evidence that #education has a #causal relationship with #lifespan from a Mendelian randomization study in Nature Human Behavior.
Insights to complement the work of Anne Case and Angus Deaton on deaths of despair.
https://conscienhealth.org/2023/07/does-low-education-bring-an-earlier-death/

Writer Fuel: Human longevity records may be broken in the next few decades, a new modeling study suggests.

https://www.limfic.com/2023/06/28/live-science-whats-the-maximum-possible-human-lifespan/

#LimFic #LiminalFiction #WriterFuel #Writers #Authors #WritersofMastodon #StoryIdeas #Aging #Lifespan

Writer Fuel: Human longevity records may be broken in the next few decades, a new modeling study suggests.

https://www.limfic.com/2023/06/28/live-science-whats-the-maximum-possible-human-lifespan/

#LimFic #LiminalFiction #WriterFuel #Writers #Authors #WritersofMastodon #StoryIdeas #Aging #Lifespan

#Taurine can improve the #lifespan and #healthspan of animals and humans

https://food.news/2023-06-21-taurine-key-nutrient-promotes-longevity-good-health.html

#longevity #antiaging

#Taurine can improve the #lifespan and #healthspan of animals and humans

https://naturalnews.com/2023-06-21-taurine-key-nutrient-promotes-longevity-good-health.html

#longevity #antiaging

There's a Parasite That Triples Ants' Lifespans... And It Actually Sounds Pretty Great

Very interesting. #ants #science #nature #parasites #lifespan
https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-parasite-that-triples-ants-lifespans-and-it-actually-sounds-pretty-great
>Hosting a parasitic tapeworm isn't usually a desirable state.

There's a Parasite That Triples Ants' Lifespans... And It Actually Sounds Pretty Great

Very interesting. #ants #science #nature #parasites #lifespan
https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-parasite-that-triples-ants-lifespans-and-it-actually-sounds-pretty-great
>Hosting a parasitic tapeworm isn't usually a desirable state.

Tik-Tok of the Methylation clock: does DNA #methylation impact on our #lifespan?⏰

New #preLight post prepared by Jennifer Ann Black which covers a #preprint from Samuel Crofts, Eric Latorre-Crespo &Tamir Chandra.

#genetics #ageing #Mammals

#preLight: https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/dna-methylation-rates-scale-with-maximum-lifespan-across-mammals-t20230614-1322/

A new study finds that a molecule, called taurine, which is produced in our bodies and also found in algae, for instance, plays a role in health and lifespan. If given as a supplement to middle-aged mice their lifespans can be extended by up to 12 percent. More research is needed. See http://www.neat-news.com/2023/06/162.php. #taurine #lifespan #supplement

Computational model estimates #lifespan of any #fish species using only its #genome sequence.

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-lifespan-fish-species-genome-sequence.html