Daniel Engber’sPuff Daddies–(Slate)reveals a trend in baby boomers who are smoking marijuana.
Mom’s question caught me by surprise: “Have you ever tried marijuana?” she asked, sloshing her coffee around in a mug as we stood together in the kitchen. My mind went blank. Could this be the fabled “drug talk” that parents are supposed to give to their teenage children? If so, why was I getting it at 30?
It turned out my mother was less interested in my drug use than her own. When I told her I’d smoked pot in college, and a bunch of times since, she took the news in stride. The thing was, she and my father were hoping to score some weed. Did I know anybody?link to read full article
My son is always telling me that I ‘buck the trend’ when it comes to my interest in technology (as a baby boomer I should add, I joined Facebook well before he had even heard about it). However I am a bit short of friends -(not that I’m complaining)- while his ‘friends’ run into the hundreds, mine number only 39. But what more can you expect from a baby boomer— and a new study is now asserting that social network sites should be ‘designed’ to better meet the needs of us 55-65-year-old people. Researchers at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT found out that many baby-boomers think social network sites like Facebook are unfit to them. This is the reason why so few of them use any social network services on the net. [continue reading…]
As I hobble around today I draw no comfort from the news release (American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons) that’s about to follow my whining! I am back on the exercise train- and, if you follow me on Twitter you may realize that I drag myself to the gym for much of the week. Oh, and did I mention how well its been going? That is until yesterday… changing up my program I added 1 minute of skipping to the end of my weight sets. I almost made it. My last set…..my last half minute of skipping … ouch there went my Achilles. Reading this press release today just rubs salt in the wound (so to speak). Alright , I know, I’m no spring chicken anymore and I need to pay heed to my crumbling bod!
Biochemist Gregory Petsko makes a convincing argument that, in the next 50 years, we’ll see an epidemic of neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, as the world population ages. His solution: more research into the brain and its functions
