Nearly a quarter of the global population of older adults at mid-century could face extreme heat, putting their health in danger.
By 2050, as many as an additional 246 million adults age 69 and older could experience temperature extremes that exceed 37.5° Celsius, researchers report May 14 in Nature Communications. The new projection suggests that more than 23 percent of the global population of these older adults — largely concentrated in Africa and Asia — will encounter this intense
Dreaming is often dismissed as irrelevant and unimportant because it occurs while you’re asleep or lacks the logic that guides you during waking hours.
But that is a huge mistake. We should see dreams as a different form of thinking. Each night, the brain – from which our consciousness and self-awareness arise – liberates us from the constraints of habit and the limits of our daily existence.
When we dream we are in a world completely of our own making,
For years, animated movies with children as the target audience have boded well for adults, too.
Many animated films have high production and script-writing quality, which includes adult humor and themes woven throughout. Generations of parents and grandparents are easily able to enjoy the plots, characters, lessons and musical scoring alongside their young offspring.
Read on for a list of animated movies, new and old, to be enjoyed as both a child and an adult.
Animated movies aren’t just for
Jeden Tag stürmen Scharen kinderloser Menschen die Tore des Magic Kingdom, verkleidet als ihre Lieblingscharaktere und bereit, Tausende von Dollar auszugeben.
Diese sogenannten Disney-Erwachsenen haben Das mag zu einem Rätsel werden, aber hinter der Besessenheit dieser Gruppe vom „glücklichsten Ort der Welt“ steckt eine Wissenschaft.
Psychologen, die diese Fangemeinde untersuchten, stellten fest, dass sie auf einem persönlichen Trauma beruhen könnte, einer Möglichkeit, Kernerinnerungen oder ein Zugehörigkeitsgefühl wiederzubeleben.
Diese sogenannten Disney-Erwachsenen sind zu einem Rätsel geworden, aber hinter der Besessenheit dieser
Genre ist eine verfluchte Sache. Dustin Guy Defas neuer Film „The Adults“ ist nicht wirklich ein Musical, aber die Darbietungen von Musik und Tanz, die darin eine Rolle spielen, sind dramatischer und deutlicher umgesetzt als die in vielen Filmen, die gemeinhin als Musicals angesehen werden. Übrigens zeigt Defa in vielen anderen Dingen im Film seine eigenwillige Originalität – insbesondere die Art und Weise, wie er eine Familiensaga in intimen, gegenwärtigen Begriffen heraufbeschwört. „The Adults“ ist zunächst einmal ein treffender und
A mysterious organ that’s most active in childhood might play a previously underappreciated role in adults.
In a study of almost 2,300 adults who underwent chest surgery, removing the thymus gland was associated with higher rates of death and of cancer within the next few years, researchers report in the Aug. 3 New England Journal of Medicine. The discovery pushes back on a long-held belief that the immune system organ is somewhat expendable in adulthood.
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A children’s book bag with a pattern that uses animals to represent each letter of the alphabet has left adults stumped as they try to identify the creatures correctly.
Posting to the subreddit CasualUK, a baffled dad shared a snap of the bag, which has an entire A-Z alphabet featuring animals on the front, and asked his fellow Redditors for help.
The dad wrote: ‘So we bought this busy book for our one-year-old full of zips, buttons clips sort of
Washing clothes is relatively simple, but every now and again there may be one item which requires special attention. And if it comes to reading symbols on clothing labels, 70 percent of adults wouldn’t know what to do.
A study of 2,000 adults found 32 percent believe there are too many symbols to comprehend, while 22 percent get confused by the varying instructions between different items. Consequently, 20 percent admitted to giving up on reading the symbols altogether before loading
Jules Hutton was horrified when a routine ultrasound for tummy pain picked up a build-up of fat in her liver.
‘The next minute the sonographer was telling me I had non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) — something I didn’t even know was a medical condition,’ says Jules, 51.
‘I was shocked and quite scared when I found out NAFLD can progress to cirrhosis [scarring of the liver] and even liver failure or liver cancer. I had no symp- toms whatsoever.
