Tips for Happy, Healthy Aging (w/ Daniel Levitin) and a Massive Collision Helped Us Judge the Milky Way’s Age

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Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

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🗓️ 18 February 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Learn about research-based advice for staying happy in your later years, from neuroscientist and author Daniel Levitin. Then, you’ll learn about how a faraway star helped researchers figure out when the Milky Way was formed.

Additional resources from Daniel Levitin:

Pick up “Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives” on Amazon https://amazon.com
Other publications by Daniel Levitin on Amazon https://amazon.com
Official website https://www.daniellevitin.com/
Follow @danlevitin on Twitter https://twitter.com/danlevitin

A Massive Collision Helped Us Judge the Milky Way’s Age by Grant Currin

Dating a galaxy crash. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/m-dag011520.php
Collision helped make the Milky Way -- and now we know when. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/yu-chm011320.php
staff, S. X. (2017, July 27). Milky Way’s origins are not what they seem. Phys.Org; Phys.org. https://phys.org/news/2017-07-milky.html
Smith, V. V., Tsuji, T., Hinkle, K. H., Cunha, K., Blum, R. D., Valenti, J. A., Ridgway, S. T., Joyce, R. R., & Bernath, P. (2003). High-Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of the Brown Dwarf Indi Ba. The Astrophysical Journal, 599(2), L107–L110. https://doi.org/10.1086/381248
Chaplin, W. J., Serenelli, A. M., Miglio, A., Morel, T., Mackereth, J. T., Vincenzo, F., Kjeldsen, H., Basu, S., Ball, W. H., Stokholm, A., Verma, K., Mosumgaard, J. R., Silva Aguirre, V., Mazumdar, A., Ranadive, P., Antia, H. M., Lebreton, Y., Ong, J., Appourchaux, T., … Yıldız, M. (2020). Age dating of an early Milky Way merger via asteroseismology of the naked-eye star ν Indi. Nature Astronomy. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0975-9
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.04653.pdf

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from
0:04.7	Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Goff, and I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about
0:08.7	research-based advice for staying happy in your later years from
0:12.0	neuroscientist and author Daniel Levitan.
0:14.8	Then you learn about how a faraway star
0:16.8	helped researchers figure out when the Milky Way was formed.
0:19.5	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:21.5	None of us are getting younger. let's face it the idea of growing
0:25.2	old can be scary but it turns out that not only can you stay happy in your 70s
0:30.4	80s 90s and beyond you might even be happy Ist during those later decades.
0:36.8	That's according to our guest today, neuroscientists, cognitive psychologist, and best-selling
0:41.4	author Daniel Levitan.
0:43.0	He told us that recently his parents were asking him for advice on what they should be doing differently as they get into their late 80s and 90s.
0:50.0	And when he looked to see what books were out there, he said he didn't find any.
0:55.0	So that's why he wrote his newest book called Successful Aging.
0:58.6	A Neuroscientist explores the power and potential of our lives. It debunks the idea that aging inevitably brings
1:06.2	unhappiness. Here's our conversation with Daniel starting with the fact that some things
1:10.9	actually get better with age.
1:13.0	People who are older are actually better at seeing the big picture.
1:17.0	They've had decades of their brains practicing finding patterns in the things that happen around them in the world.
1:25.0	And as a result, they're better able to make predictions about what might happen next
1:29.7	more easily than younger generations.
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