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Psychology says people who quietly let their social circles shrink in their 60s and 70s aren’t becoming cold or withdrawn — Stanford research suggests they’re deliberately investing in fewer, more emotionally meaningful relationships, a shift consistently linked to greater emotional well-being.
When someone in their 60s or 70s quietly stops keeping up with every acquaintance, every old work contact, every group...
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The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 7/6/26 – AlleyWatch
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of...
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The 10 Largest NYC Tech Startup Funding Rounds of June 2026 – AlleyWatch
Armed with some data from our friends at CrunchBase, I broke down the largest NYC Startup funding rounds in New...
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Psychology says people who light up every room they enter aren’t naturally cheerful or born confident — they’re usually the ones who decided, somewhere along the way, that other people deserved to feel seen
We tend to assume the people who light up every room were simply born that way: naturally sunny, effortlessly confident,...
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Psychology says the people who read everything on social media but never post anything are not the shy ones or the antisocial ones — they are usually the most careful observers in the room, and they have learned that watching quietly gives them information about other people that speaking would immediately take away
The population of people who use social media without posting is much larger than most active posters realise. The Pew...
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In 1979, a Harvard psychologist named Ellen Langer took eight men in their late 70s to a retreat house redecorated exactly like 1959 — old magazines, radio broadcasts, and furniture — and asked them to live as their younger selves for a week, and by the end their eyesight, hearing, memory, and grip strength had measurably improved
In September 1979, at an old converted Catholic monastery in the wooded countryside of Peterborough, New Hampshire — approximately 90...
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The truth about 10,000 steps a day: the number wasn’t science, it was the brand name of a pedometer a Japanese company launched around the 1964 Tokyo Olympics — and later research finds real health benefits from as few as 4,000 steps
The daily step goal on hundreds of millions of wrists and phones did not come out of a laboratory. It...
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We tend to think using AI well is a technical skill, but the evidence from early adopters suggests it is almost entirely a clarity skill — the people getting extraordinary results are simply unusually clear about what outcome they are actually after
We tend to treat being good at AI as a technical skill, something to do with clever prompts, the right...
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I use an AI as an external hard drive for my own memory, and the strange part is how much better my thinking got once I stopped asking my brain to store everything
I started using AI as an external memory. Somehow, it made me feel more human — which feels like it...
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Roughly one in eight American adults is now on a GLP-1 drug like Ozempic — a class that grew out of a hormone one Bronx doctor found in Gila monster venom, then patented himself after his own employer passed on it
John Eng, a Bronx endocrinologist working at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, spent years hunting for a hormone that could...
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