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How to Improve Your Flexibility – The Body’s Secret Weapon for Staying Healthy and Active

Flexibility is crucial for keeping your body in top shape.

"Flexibility is crucial for keeping your body in top shape – playing a big role in your overall health and the way your body functions daily. Here are just some of the ways it is important – and tips for how to maintain your own flexibility:"

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Is Consciousness an Illusion?

Philosopher Daniel Dennett holds a distinctive and openly paradoxical position on the question of consciousness.

"Dennett writes, the world is

   full of other people, plants, and animals, furniture and houses and cars…and colors and rainbows and sunsets, and voices and haircuts, and home runs and dollars, and problems and opportunities and mistakes, among many other such things. These are the myriad “things” that are easy for us to recognize, point to, love or hate, and, in many cases, manipulate or even create…. It’s the world according to us."

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Here’s How to Get Stronger After 50 - Outside - Pocket

You don’t have to lift less as you get older—you just have to make a few adjustments to your training. Regardless of intensity or volume, establishing a regular routine and sticking to it is the most critical part of training as you age. “Don’t stop training, ever. It is genuinely a case of use it or lose it,” Swift says. “Once you stop training at a later age, there is a decline at a much greater rate than for a younger population, and it is considerably harder to get it back.”

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A Landmark Study on the Origins of Alcoholism - The Atlantic - Pocket

By studying rats in a smarter way, scientists are finally learning something useful about why some drinkers become addicted and others don’t.

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The Biggest Wastes Of Time We Regret When We Get Older - Lifehacker - Pocket

There are things we all do, or don't do, that lead us to waste far more time than we realize in the moment.

- Not Asking for Help - Trying to Make Bad Relationships Work... - Dwelling on Your Mistakes and Shortcomings - Worrying Too Much About Other People

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Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria - The Atlantic - Pocket

”Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.“

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No, You Can’t Feel Sorry for Everyone - Nautilus - Pocket

The idea of empathy for all ignores the limits of human psychology. "Our instinctive tendency to categorize the world into “us” and “them” is difficult to overcome. It is in our nature to favor helping in-group members like friends, family, or fellow citizens, and to neglect or even punish out-group members. Even as some moral circles expand, others remain stubbornly fixed, or even contract: Just think of Democrats and Republicans, Sunnis and Shiites, Duke and North Carolina basketball fans."

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Interview: Micron likes 3D DRAM and 3D NAND – and loves CXL

How does Micron view the world of CXL (Computer eXpress Link)? Blocks & Files had the opportunity to talk about this with Ryan Baxter, a Micron senior director of marketing and the segment lead for the datacenter (cloud and networking) area.

Chris Mellor