You mean.... that you can predict one's income by where they fall on the "Roach Motel Apartment" to "3x McMansions and 2x condos in NYC" spectrum?
Cuz I find it surprising. Most of the millionaires/billionaires club don't actually post a real income. They have investments, and take loans against those investments. (or the growth in value there of.)
Honestly, I think this has always been the case, we are just getting better at detecting and diagnosing things. Autism was only first diagnosed in 1943, Bipolar in 1952, Anxiety disorders in 1980.
40 years ago it would have been: “Greg can be a bit moody sometimes”; turns out he’d been living with undiagnosed bipolar disorder his entire life. “Charlie is a bit strange, quiet kid, but does alright in school”; well Charlie had undiagnosed autism.
Turns out when you get better at looking for things, you find more of them. (To a certain point.)
Exactly. Can you imagine expecting to go through life and never have a physical ailment? Why would you expect that you'd never have a mental one? Normalizing mental health issues and their treatment is vital for a healthy society.
Not really new news. 11 years ago cancer clinic told me the chemo will give me tinitus because besides cancer the chemo drug also kills hearing nerves. The loss of signals in one range makes the brain amplifies all channels to try to get input.
This research is apparently showing different damage than what was thought from previous experiments. The previous theories would suggest minor hearing loss, but these researchers found many cases where affected people performed normally on hearing tests, indicating hidden nerve damage and a different mechanism causing the phantom sound
Also the same, but both ears. I think I’ve had it since I was about 10 after an ear infection and only relatively recently learned not everyone has stupidly high pitched ringing in their ears all the time.
I have a persistent 12,500Hz ringing in my ears. Doesn’t bother me (yet), but I know some older folks that have issues sleeping because of it. Hope the research is productive!
(I used this app to find the tone I hear constantly)
If you have trouble sleeping, I’ve found Pink Noise a great help (that’s noise with equal energy per octave, instead of per frequency like White Noise).
I mostly have tinnitus above 16kHz (used to hear up to 20kHz as a youngster), but it’s progressing with age and from time to time get the “ringing of death” of some cells dying (fortunately not all frequencies seem to add to the tinnitus).
I used to watch a TV show called “Beyond 2000” in the 90s. They featured brand new breakthrough technologies that were so cutting edge that normal folks wouldn’t see the tech for years. One of the technologies they featured was solid state storage (SD cards). I remember thinking how fantastic that would be. Now we all walk around with them in our pockets. Point is, it’s cool to get a glimpse of what might be coming down the pipeline.
I always take several years for new storage technology to go from the lab to public computing devices, if it even makes it out of the lab.
It’s safe to bet that 3/4 of new tech advances of that sort have serious limitation that are deal-breakers. And the rest takes at least 5-10 years to become mature and cheap enough so that it’s accessible to average folks.
That title left me wondering if I even understand English.
The idea that long living organisms can unlock methods to extend human life has been science fiction for a long time. It’s exciting to see actual research in that direction. The actual science is always more mundane than science fiction.
the researchers used techniques to “downregulate” or quiet down the activity of TEs. When they did this to specific TEs in worms, the worms showed signs of aging slower. Even more, when multiple TEs were controlled simultaneously, the lifespan-extending effects added up.
“This epigenetic modification may pave the way for a method to determine age from DNA, providing an accurate biological clock.”
I think the writers who wrote the article (not journal article) mixed it up with some other article because it didn’t make sense to me. Which is why I used the title of the research paper as the title of the post.
Nope. Old people are the ones who vote in large enough population to elect people. The people who elected Trump suffer from lead poisoning thanks to being alive for the longest leaded gas period.
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