There’s some definite overtones of The Road here, if you became the last person on Earth, what would you do?
The world is going to be vastly different in only 5-years time. Buildings will collapse from non-maintained roofs. Cars and Trucks won’t operate off of stale fuel. Uncut lawns will overgrow and cripple streets along [...]

Adhere to these 11 pointers and you may just live to see your one-hundredth birthday:

Drink green tea
Floss
Embrace new technology
Lie in
Laugh
Be outgoing
Eat nuts
Do not smoke
Have a baby later in life
Take more holidays
Drink a little wine

Via Chris Glass.
Also, from New Scientist, people who smile like they mean it tend to live longer lives than who fake [...]

From Pictory: such sweet sorrow, recalling past friends and lovers who we’ve long since lost contact with:
We lived across the hallway from one another in the same brownstone apartment building, in the same small Canadian town. I thought she was brilliant. She smoked, and her nearly black hair was cut in a bob like [...]

UK department store Debenhams has recently launched a Divorce Gift List, which is intended to help the newly single to start over.
Peter Moore, Debenhams’ head of retail services, had this logical explanation for the launch of the new service: “A divorce means that one partner will be leaving the marital home and therefore be [...]

Biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, who thinks we may one day be able to reverse – as opposed to merely slow down – aging, talks about how we might occupy the time afforded us by an extended lifespan while staving off boredom.
We have been progressively shifting to doing things like that multiple times in our [...]

Not a new concept, compressing the entire history of Earth’s existence in a 60-second time-frame, (and seeing most the action take place in the last five-seconds), but all the more poignant in 60-second video format… see everything take off after the Cambrian Explosion.
By condensing 4.6 billion years of history into a minute, the video is [...]

The first Generation Xers are beginning to enter mid-life, but rather than impose the “traditional” self-indulgent mid-life crisis on themselves (and their families), some are opting for a “positive mid-life crisis”, whereby they opt for a lifestyle change but are also being of assistance to others at the same time:
A new age group is [...]

As pondered by Italian physicist Enrico Fermi. With over 70 sextillion stars in the visible universe, a fair number of which would have planetary systems, why hasn’t even the slightest indication of intelligent life beyond Earth ever been detected?
Fermi reasoned, if there are other advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, then why is there no evidence of [...]

Those contemplating cryonics – having their body preserved at low temperatures until they are “revived” at some future time – may have found a way to fund their future lives, and who knows, the future may be an expensive place, by way of life insurance policies that name themselves as the beneficiary.
The laws are [...]

What might intelligent aliens look like? The consensus among experts suggests it would be safe to bet they will not look the least bit humanoid.
Of all the vertebrates, only mammals evolved brains big enough for higher intelligence. And of the 24 orders of mammals only one – ours, the primates – has technological intelligence. [...]