It’s no secret that our eating habits and vices can make us age faster, but how much of an effect do they really have? Deep Longevity is a company that has created DeepMAge, an aging clock that examines DNA from blood samples for signs of aging to determine our biological age, alongside a possible ‘early-detection’ device for disease: “women with ovarian cancer are on average predicted to be 1.7 years than healthy women of the same chronological age.” Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
