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The Human Evidence on Senolytics
Animal studies showed that clearing senescent cells can improve healthspan measures. The human data are real but early, small, and…
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Todd Ruffner-Schoenfeld
Editor in chief. A knack for the fine print, and likes it.
Todd Ruffner-Schoenfeld has spent his working life being handed things he did not yet understand. He started at the bottom, a developer in a bullpen, and worked his way up to running IT. The places were a strange assortment: consulting firms, accounting firms, a biotech startup, a tech startup in Silicon Valley and, of all places, Chiquita. Four small businesses of his own along the way. The work never really changed. Get into something unfamiliar, find out what is actually going on, and help someone make a hard decision with it. HeadLines Decoded is that job, pointed at the news.
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The Human Evidence on Senolytics
Animal studies showed that clearing senescent cells can improve healthspan measures. The human data are real but early, small, and…
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The Festival of the Holidays Kept Its Soul, Because It Trades on Meaning Instead of Volume
It has the booths too. But it also has the storytellers, and they still land.
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Cellular Senescence, Explained Properly
Senescent cells are often described as zombie cells that refuse to die and poison their neighbors. The biology is real.…
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The Concerts Are Where EPCOT Still Surprises You, and Where the Season Gets Personal
The concerts are the one part of the festival that never turned into a booth. And for me, one name…
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The U.S. emergency oil stockpile just hit its lowest level since 1983. Here’s what that number actually tells us.
America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve was built as insurance against severe supply shocks. How it has actually been used, and where…
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The Search Results Are the Story
The same commercial forces that shape search results and supplement labels run all the way down to clinics charging five…
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Food and Wine Got Enormous, and Somewhere in Getting Enormous It Lost the Plot
I still do the marketplaces every fall. But Food and Wine is the clearest case of the thing this series…
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Flower and Garden Is Still Beautiful. It Is Also the One I Miss Most.
The topiaries are still there and the park still looks its best. But the festival drifted from a garden you…
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Festival of the Arts Is the One About the Artists, and That Is Why It Still Feels Like Itself
Arts is too new to have a 'used to be.' What it has is the artists, and the one I…
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EPCOT Lost Its Off-Season, and the Festivals Started to Blur Together
I still plan trips around these festivals. I just started to notice they'd begun to feel like the same event…