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Most grandparents these days have to travel miles to see their grandkids. Throw in a divorce or separation and the likelihood of seeing them becomes even more problematic. Never fear. There are always someone else’s kids to worry about. In Florida, grandparents can volunteer to read to elementary school students. Getting out of bed for [...]

Leave it to the Bush Administration to hire a bunch of lawyers to draft legislation that inserts a few key words into a Medicaid bill in order to influence the use of birth control on college campuses across the nation. Maybe this administration needs to go back and read the fine print of the Constitution…you [...]

Science begins with a hypothesis and then proceeds to test it according to rigorous standards. How you frame the question usually determines the outcome of the results. Some researchers asked the question: Are the elderly a burden to society? Nice question, huh. I’ll bet that makes you feel like a million bucks.
Their answer: the [...]

“We’re here. We’re old. Get the f**k used to it.” [Edited for those of you who find the English language offensive.]
Mark Cuban, the dude who sold broadcast.com for $500 million before the internet bubble burst, recently vented about the media constantly writing articles about how anyone over the age of 30 seems incapable of adapting [...]

Integrative Biology 131: General Human Anatomy. Fall 2005. Professor Marian Diamond. The functional anatomy of the human body as revealed by gross and microscopic examination.
Finally!! UC Berkeley is beginning to make class lectures available online for free! This is what education is really about. The cost of education today is more about bloated overhead and [...]

Carol Channing is performing at the Hollywood Bowl this weekend. She was asked what’s on her reading list. The answer: Integrating the Arts: An Approach to Teaching and Learning in Multicultural and Multilingual Settings. You see, you’re never too old to learn or…give back.
Pushy Questions for Carol Channing

Carol Channing at the Hollywood Bowl

Singapore thinks they have this whole disparity between those in the workforce and those retiring thing figured out: get seniors to take classes at SIM University in order to keep them in the workforce longer. One retired teacher said, “Why sit at home when I can learn new things every day.” Indeed! Why sit around [...]

© Christopher Peterson
“More than the films, more than the awards — finding out that I was on Nixon’s Enemies List meant that I was doing something right.
“Nixon didn’t like my campaigning for Democratic presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy. But then again, he didn’t much care for debate, dissent, or the Constitution either.
“I was proud to [...]

Have you ever read a fact that absolutely blew your mind? I was reading Thomas Friedman’s article in the New York Times’ Magazine section and just couldn’t believe what I was reading. I was completely stunned. Read it for yourself and ponder the trajectory of the United States since the Cold War. This country needs [...]

The older you get, the more likely it is that you’ll have some experience that’s worth passing on to the next generation. It could be something as simple as how to mow a nice pattern across the lawn or how to cook a hard-boiled egg. Or, as in the case of a substitute teacher, what [...]

Whether you are five or fifty, the one key factor that will determine how long you live, it turns out, is education. How simple. The undeveloped mind would appear to have less capacity for dealing with the stresses of the world. Being able to process life’s steady barrage of information requires a sophisticated ability to [...]

New York Post’s Page Six reports:
Sally Field says she’s a loser in love. “My [two] marriages were destructive. They just wore you down until you had no worth . . . Whatever a soul mate is, I’ve never had that,” the still-perky Oscar-winner tells February’s Ladies’ Home Journal. The former teen star of “Gidget” and [...]

Retirement doesn’t mean having to say you’re sorry you never got a better education. With a 529 savings plan, you can change how you use those idle hours long after your job is a distant memory.
At age 64, Ray Loewe and his wife are getting ready for retirement by opening a 529 college-savings account. “We’re [...]

They say the desire for education never wanes; the problem is finding the required time to attend classes. Adult Continuing Education has been part of the university curriculum for years. As Baby Boomers age, the lack of time element should disappear. More and more seniors are enrolling in classes that may even be free or [...]

Grandparents’ Rights, 4th Edition
by Traci Truly

The publisher’s pitch:
With changes in demographics, grandparents are living longer and want to spend as much time as they can with their grandchildren. There is no other book in the marketplace that so clearly addresses the rights of this growing population.
This new edition explains the ramifications for all 50 states [...]

Over Here
How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream
By Edward Humes
In 1944, the U.S. government feared the flood of returning World War II soldiers almost as much as it longed for peace. To avoid economic catastrophe, FDR, Congress, and veterans groups devised a modest measure, the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944.
They intended this G.I. Bill [...]

Project Implicit
Here you will have the opportunity to assess your conscious and unconscious preferences for over 90 different topics ranging from pets to political issues, ethnic groups to sports teams, and entertainers to styles of music. At the same time, you will be assisting in a large-scale study of preferences.
Sessions require about 10 minutes to [...]

The following pitch arrived via email this morning. It’s from the Learning Annex. You know, that organization that keeps hiring Donald Trump to give mega lectures on how to get rich in real estate in stadium-size halls.
This pitch seems to be a trial run for making even more money through what they are terming [...]

If you’ve never played tennis before, chances are you might need a few lessons to get the basics down like a forehand, backhand, and a serve. It also helps to know the rules of how the game is played.
The same approach applies to learning how to read. It requires some basic lessons and lots of [...]

Psychologists are like trees in the wind, they adapt to strange breezes with an understanding that doing so gives them the insight to reflect back the nature of their patient’s behavior. No matter how many books on Freud, Jung, or Margaret Mahler they might read, though, nothing prepares them for the insights that come when [...]