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Oversized crowbars bend wood for a piano’s rim. Circular sanders smooth rough edges on costly Sitka spruce soundboards. Hammers and chisels notch a bridge to allow piano strings to vibrate freely. For 30 years, Bernard Craddock has been one of the roughly 200 workers handcrafting pianos at the 150-year-old Steinway & Sons factory in Astoria, a neighborhood in the New …

Step into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab in Cambridge, US, and the future feels a little closer. Glass cabinets display prototypes of weird and wonderful creations, from tiny desktop robots to a surrealist sculpture created by an AI model prompted to design a tea set made from body parts. In the lobby, an AI waste-sorting assistant named …

Is it an achievable goal to remain mentally sharp while aging, or is it a pipe dream? It’s entirely possible if you cultivate habits throughout your life that are beneficial to brain function. As a researcher in cognitive neuroscience and the neuropsychology of aging processes, I aim to shed light on the ways we can maintain good cognitive health while …

Key Takeaways Government statistical agencies failed to publish three major economic reports that were due Thursday. Economists are warning that the data for October may not merely be delayed but skipped entirely if the shutdown drags on. Missed economic reports by government statistical agencies have economists wondering what will happen if the data simply never arrives.  Experts have assumed that …

AP  —  Susan Stamberg, a “founding mother” of National Public Radio and the first female broadcaster to host a national news program, has died. She was 87. Stamberg died Thursday, NPR reported. It did not provide a cause of death. Stamberg joined NPR in the early 1970s when it was getting off the ground as a network of radio stations …

USF athletic director Larry Williams, former NFL player, dies at age 62  San Francisco Chronicle University of San Francisco’s athletic director dies while working out on campus  KTVU University of San Francisco Athletic Director Larry Williams dies at 62 during morning workout on campus  ABC7 San Francisco Former Browns offensive lineman who blocked for Bernie Kosar dies at 62  Cleveland.com Former Notre Dame, NFL …

Pay Dirt is Slate’s money advice column. Have a question? Send it to Kristin and Ilyce here. (It’s anonymous!) Dear Pay Dirt, My mother and father divorced two years ago after a long marriage. She is 64, and the divorce hit her hard. She was very upset because, among other things, my father started dating soon after the divorce and …

Your brain isn’t just shrinking with age, it’s doing something much stranger  PsyPost Source link

Democratic senator shouldn’t run at age 80, new primary challenger says  The Washington Post Seth Moulton to seek Massachusetts Senate seat held by Ed Markey in generational fight  Politico Rep. Seth Moulton invokes age in launching Democratic primary challenge against Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts  CNN Rep. Seth Moulton to Challenge Edward Markey for Senate in Massachusetts  The New York Times Rep. Seth Moulton …

As your youth fades further into the past, you may start to fear growing older. But research my colleague and I have recently published in the journal Intelligence shows there’s also very good reason to be excited: for many of us, overall psychological functioning actually peaks between ages 55 and 60. And knowing this highlights why people in this age …