Josh wants me to stop banging on tirelessly about bad news. It’s the implied message of his silence, too. So in the spirit of non-bad News You Can Use, here’s a piece of helpful advice for longevity: These are places to live where the longevity is greatest according to an in-depth analysis in MarketWatch. From the introduction:
When searching for places to live, you may look for places with the best schools, the best restaurants or entertainment options, or perhaps the most affordable city. But what about moving to one of the healthiest places in America?
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To find the healthiest and unhealthiest counties in America, the Marketwatch Guides team looked at factors that affect health, such as air pollution, grocery stores, income and preventable hospitalization rates. These factors can lead to increased doctor visits and ultimately have an impact on quality of life factors that may affect health and life insurance rates. Read on to learn about our findings and check out our Methodology section for more on how we collected this data.
Read on indeed! And then move there. Because living among long-lived people will make you live longer, probably, due to peer pressure and old-person tenacity.
I just came across an amazing science fact, via the following article
https://www.iflscience.com/redditor-asks-why-looking-through-cheese-crackers-improves-their-vision-73071
I can not read my phone without my glasses, but by making a tiny aperture with my fingertips and holding it up to my eye, I can.
Learning this brightened my day. I am a nerd.
Placido Domingo, everyone. I dreamed we were going out to dinner, and my son-in-law, apropos of nothing, started chewing me out because he'd heard I have a negative opinion of Fidel Castro, didn't I know about such-and-such bad American person?
I'm disappointed that my reaction was to say, "I don't think I've ever mentioned Fidel Castro in your hearing, but I'm sorry I've upset you in some way," followed by a resolution to sit as far as possible from him at dinner.
I don't think my son-in-law is actually a Communist, for the record. He works in marketing for the local NBA team.