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Gather round the genetic pool if you are Chinese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Korean or Japanese. A large scale study of cancer prevalence among these ethnic groups has churned out a distinctive pattern of incidence. Not great news, but at least you don’t have to stand on the diving board and wonder how deep the cancer [...]

The buffoon know as our President is still clinging to his alcoholic delusion that somehow a miracle will save his legacy based on his decision to invade Iraq. Save the delusion for your pathetic retirement. It’s time for all elected officials to ditch their partisan loyalty and start making decisions based on the good of [...]

Tempur-Pedic has put together a new marketing campaign that promotes its mattress as a provider of “refuge” and “wellness” feelings. It’s a deliberate attempt to appeal to “middle to upper-middle income women, ages 35 to 65″ who represent their target market.
I guess Baby Boomers aren’t having sex any more, so thus the need to [...]

Author Stacy Cordery is about to publish a new biography on the life of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the rebel rouser daughter of President Teddy Roosevelt. Her lust for life apparently included a healthy appetite for sex. Alice: “Old people have feelings . . . they even have sexual passion. Fill what’s empty, empty what’s full, [...]

Last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine has a great selection of articles about aging. It covers everything from Boomer Babes to extending life through prescription drugs.
The Older–and–Wiser Hypothesis
By STEPHEN S. HALL
Wisdom, long a subject for philosophers, is now being scrutinized by a cadre of scientific researchers. The trick lies not just in measuring something so [...]

© Gilles Barbier, L’Hospice (2002)
Where do superheros go when they retire? Gilles Barbier imagines them in a nursing home. Check out Superman with his walker and Wonderwoman standing beside Captain America on a gurney. C’est tragique, non?
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Meet Geri, a geriatric patient mannequin that “over 35 nursing and medical procedures, such as catheterization and prostate examination can be demonstrated and practiced on” in the comfort of your classroom. If you study the image above, you’ll appreciate one commenter who noted, “I didn’t know that old people had TWO penises?”
Purchase Geri (he’s on [...]

© Anigami, Rosa Parks on Board the iPod Bus
If you’re a hipster plugged into the digital revolution with an iPod, then you should definitely read this article. Here’s the punchline: “Holding the iPod just two inches away from their chests for 5 to 10 seconds was enough to cause electrical interference half the time.” Hey, [...]

Sandy Krasnow is a designer who says, “To me, there is no more beautiful work than creating a beautiful life for myself.” Style never ages!

For those of you who watch Donnie Deutsch and dream of making millions, then the Adult Active Expo at the Anaheim Convention Center June 30th to July 1st just might be your first big step to hustling the Baby Boomer demographic.
The pitch:
Come join us at the Active Adult Expo where you’ll find a 50+ [...]

Frank Sinatra may sing Fly Me To the Moon, but for one grandmother it’s more like Fly Me to My Grandson. This business of childcare sure makes for strange parenting. What’s the point of having a child if you really don’t enjoy participating in his or her development? You got me. Things are things, but [...]

You know how you can tell when a rainstorm is coming. Well, researchers with a little time on their hands are predicting demographic storm clouds are going to produce a labor shortage as more Baby Boomers retire from the workforce. You can read the writing on the decrepit wall, but unless social policies start anticipating [...]

Pop quiz! Today’s test involves a little compare and contrast of two New York Times’ articles. See if you can spot the pattern. Hint: drug companies have no problem pushing their drugs on the young and old, all in the name of profits. The real bullshit is the fact that doctors can be bought.
Where’s [...]

Some stories are so outlandish they defy plausibility, even when you know they are real. This is one of them. Why a 41-year-old woman found it necessary to get an 83-year-old woman to smoke crack in order to exploit her financially is beyond reason. Maybe she never left the house, so the housemate found it [...]

For those of you who thought paying for your grandkids’ college education was frightening, you better bail on donating money to that cause and put all your dough into a savings account, because the cost of retirement is starting to look like the Iraq War budget.
Or, might we suggest retiring abroad to a foreign [...]

For all you father slackers, take a page from Julio Iglesias, and crank up those bedroom efforts. Julio just fathered his 8th child. Forget the rhythm method for birth control. We suggest you rush out and buy an Iglesias CD so you too can father a baby-grandchild child.
Julio Iglesias Is A Father Again

© Mike Reed
The term “flame warrior” describes a certain personality that lurks in the bowels of online discussion boards. Artist Mike Reed had the original idea of taking these personality and giving them a life as an image. Witness Toxic Granny. Per Mike, “Warriors often underestimate Toxic Granny’s fighting abilities. She can be very aggressive, [...]

With the genome pretty much figured out, the race to find connections between genes and health conditions is underway. For example, we learned the other day that longevity is tied to the pha-4 gene. Now researchers have found a genetic link to heart disease. Please note: they did not find any connection between a broken [...]

There’s a rule in America: if it’s on sale, then how can you resist buying it, even if you don’t need it. I mean, c’mon, fifty percent off!! The same seems to apply to eating. The bigger the plate size, the bigger the rationale for why your mind is seduced into eating far more than [...]

With Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez nationalizing his country’s oil reserves and cutting favorable deals with China, it’s pretty obvious what we are doing in Iraq. It’s sure not about spreading democracy to a Muslim region. The United States is clearly positioning itself to take control of Iraq’s oil reserves in the face of a global [...]