Michael Lang, a Force Behind the Woodstock Festival, Dies at 77
“He and his partners hoped their weekend of “peace and music” would draw 50,000 attendees. It ended up drawing more than 400,000 — and making history.”
Even if you weren’t there, you probably remember this.
Ronnie Spector, ’60s girl-group icon who sang ‘Be My Baby,’ dies at 78
We’ve lost another voice from those heady music days of the 1960s:
Ronnie Spector, whose towering voice propelled indelible early 1960s hit records including “Be My Baby,” “Baby, I Love You” and “Walking in the Rain,” died Wednesday after a brief battle with cancer. She was 78.
A taste for sweet – an anthropologist explains the evolutionary origins of why you’re programmed to love sugar
I have a notorious sweet tooth. But apparently it’s not my fault.
Medicare Proposes to Cover Aduhelm Only for Patients in Clinical Trials
Here’s a follow-up to a news story included in last week’s links (the second story down).
Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen
In an excerpt from his book Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention, Johann Hari explains: “Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can.”
Your biological age may be different from your real age. A new institute at Northwestern plans to explore the issue.
The Potocsnak Longevity Institute, a new organization at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Illinois, U.S.A., is opening this month. It “will focus on research related to aging, and on treating patients suffering from its effects.”
New Research Reveals How Alzheimer’s Progresses in the Brain
This article reports on an October 2021 study from the University of Cambridge that “sheds new light on how Alzheimer’s disease progresses in the brain, with implications for future treatments and prevention strategies.”
COVID-19 causes mobility, physical declines in older adults, study finds
News from United Press International (UPI):
Many adults age 50 years and older sickened with COVID-19 experience declines in mobility and the ability to perform day-to-day physical activities up to eight months after infection, a study published Wednesday [January 12, 2022] by JAMA Network Open found.
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