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2026

Aug 13
Psychology of Optimization · Evidence
A scientist ran a longevity study on one person: himself. Read the limitations section first.
A university in Singapore announced today that one of its professors had, in a study published yesterday in PLOS ONE, reduced his estimated biological age from 47 to about 32.
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2025

Mar 24
Connection · Psychology
The chatbot's maker studied loneliness. Its heaviest users had more of it.
OpenAI and the MIT Media Lab released two studies of what ChatGPT does to the people who use it most. One analyzed nearly 40 million interactions automatically; the other was a four-week randomized trial of 1,000 people.
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Jan 30
Evidence
The cold plunge got its meta-analysis. The benefits last about twelve hours.
Researchers at the University of South Australia published this week in PLOS ONE the first systematic review and meta-analysis of cold-water immersion in healthy adults: eleven studies, 3,177 participants, cold showers, ice baths and plunges with water at chest level or higher for at…
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2024

Dec 2
Psychology
Oxford's word of the year is "brain rot." Longevity content is the premium tier.
Oxford University Press named "brain rot" its Word of the Year today, after a public vote of more than 37,000 people. Oxford's definition: the supposed deterioration of a person's mental state from overconsuming trivial content, now particularly online.
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