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 [...]

Happiness has two not so happy side effects according to a series of UNSW School of Psychology studies, which has found those in a jolly mood tend to become more selfish and careless.
Psychologist Joe Forgas at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, who has led many of these studies, suggests that [...]

If the best part of taking a holiday is the anticipation in the lead up to the break, then the logical conclusion is take more (if shorter) holidays through-out the year.
In an analysis of 1,530 people, 974 of whom took a vacation during the study, researchers found that, unsurprisingly, people anticipating a trip reported [...]

Heartbreak can result in a concussion of the heart, and is an actual physical condition, not something that is imagined.
The condition is “typically triggered by acute emotion or physical trauma that releases a surge of adrenaline that overwhelms the heart. The effect is to freeze much of the left ventricle, the heart’s main pumping [...]

Boredom can reduce life expectancy, with those trying to escape its clutches taking to drinking and drug abuse.
Those who reported feeling a great deal of boredom were 37 per cent more likely to have died by the end of the study, the researchers found. Scientists said that this could be a result of those [...]

Reading books seems to be more effective than listening to music, or walking, when it comes to reducing stress.
Reading worked best, reducing stress levels by 68 per cent, said cognitive neuropsychologist Dr David Lewis. Subjects only needed to read, silently, for six minutes to slow down the heart rate and ease tension in the [...]

It seems some of our favourite breakfast foods which we grab at the cafe with our coffee each morning aren’t quite as healthy as we believed them to be. By the sounds of it we’d be no worse off munching on hamburgers and chocolate bars instead…
A study by Women’s Health magazine found that a slice [...]

Becoming a contract, or paid-by-the-hour, worker may boost overall job satisfaction, as such workers tend to be more focused on their pay-cheque, and the money that is due them:
Researchers explored the relationship between income and happiness by focusing on the organizational arrangements that make the connection between time and money. They found that the [...]

Paul Frijters, a professor at the Queensland University of Technology, has assigned monetary values to various life events, marriage, the birth of a child, a death in the family, and divorce, and then calculated the “psychic” value or liability of these events for both men and women, and found some widely varying differences:
What’s a [...]