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Time seems to speed up as we get older because each year we live is a smaller percentage of the total amount of time we’ve been alive. It’s called proportional theory. There’s a suggestion that our perception of time may be in proportion to the length of our lifespan. Known as the “proportional theory”, this […]
Time seems to speed up as we get older because each year we live is a smaller percentage of the total amount of time we’ve been alive. It’s called proportional theory. There’s a suggestion that our perception of time may be in proportion to the length of our lifespan. Known as the “proportional theory”, this […]
30+ minutes of running 5 days a week has been linked to 9 years of less ageing on the cellular level. 00
“Old-person smell’ is a real thing — researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia confirmed that elderly people really do have a distinct scent, so recognizable in fact that people can identify them by body odor alone. 00
There is a 90 year old nurse working at Tacoma General Hospital who started her first nursing job 70 years ago in 1946.
There’s a nursing home in Seattle that brings in kids to play with the elderly. It improves the daily lives of the residents and makes the kids less likely to be ageist later in life.
In Japan, unmarried women in their late 20’s were called “Christmas Cakes” because “after the 25th they’re not good”.
Back in 1970, Douglas P. Stewart, a professor of classics at Brandeis University, made headlines for advocating that the elderly should lose the right to vote. His thesis is this: “The old, having no future, are dangerously free from the consequences of their own political acts, and it makes no sense to allow the vote […]
As we age, we perceive time faster because “adulthood is accompanied by fewer and fewer memorable events” (firsts), our biological clocks slows down along with a few other affecting factors.
A person’s perception of time tends to speed up with age.