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Researchers at Brock University surveyed 416 Canadians aged sixty and over who were enrolled in general-interest courses, and what they found cuts against the way most of us think about later-life learning.
The first time Gallup tested it, just 30% of employees said yes — and those who did turned out to be seven times as likely to be engaged at work.
"Each of us lives only in the present, this brief moment; the rest is either a life that is past, or is in an uncertain future." That's Marcus Aurelius, in the A.S.L. Farquharson translation, writing to himself nearly two thousand years ago in the private notebook we now call the Meditations.
On a Phnom Penh morning in January 2026, a man who had held three passports, a Cambodian royal title, and a personal fortune large enough to make him one of the country's most visible businessmen woke up as none of those things.
On October 14, 2025, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn unsealed an indictment and a civil forfeiture complaint that, taken together, represent what the Department of Justice has described as the largest asset seizure in its history: 127,271 bitcoin, valued at roughly $15 billion at the time of filing.
In a Bristol courtroom this month, a judge reached for a sentencing tool that had never before been applied to protest-related criminal damage in British legal history.
A quick note: I am not an economist, a psychologist, or an organizational scientist.
Fusion startup Xcimer Energy has activated Phoenix, a krypton-fluoride excimer laser system the company describes as the largest privately owned laser in the world.
An unofficial website calling itself UK Visa Portal has exposed the passports and selfie photos of visa applicants, and the security flaw remains unpatched, according to TechCrunch , which reported the breach on 26 May.
Carl Jung set down this sentence in the 1950s, late in his working life, when the bulk of his clinical practice and his major theoretical work was already behind him.
A rarely-used immigration statute is being weaponised to keep researchers out of America.
A new study from Lund University, tracking roughly 880 twins from the German TwinLife project, reports that between 69 and 98 percent of the link between IQ at 23 and socioeconomic status at 27 can be attributed to genetic factors.
