longevity
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Cancer is, at bottom, a theft of time. Everything else about the disease, the pain, the treatments, the vocabulary of battle we drape over it, is detail. The crime itself is that years you were owed are taken. So imagine the strange morning when medicine announces that it has finally caught the thief, completely, for…
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Every so often a piece of technology arrives that does not just change what we can do but quietly rewrites what we owe each other. The wheel did it. Antibiotics did it. The contraceptive pill did it. And there may be one coming that does it more intimately than any of them, because it touches…
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In 2024, Finland became the first country to reverse a decision to remove cursive handwriting from its national curriculum, restoring it after years of evidence that the removal had measurable consequences for literacy development, memory formation, and fine motor cognition in children. The reversal attracted global attention, but mostly from the wrong angle. Most commentary…