How to embrace a century-long life? Plus, fierce women warriors; enriching older brains, studying lifelong fertility, remembering another Kremlin war on Ukraine ... and solving the mystery of the ’Rainbow Bridge’
| | Friday, February 24, 2023 | | | | |
 | PHOTOGRAPH BY JR, REDUX
| | Experts don’t mince words: as many as half of today’s five year olds in the U.S. will live to 100. Are we ready?
That extended life isn’t just more years in pain, either. ”For the majority of today’s five year olds, 82 will be like 60 today,” gerontologist Sarah Harper tells us.
What will that mean? Three-day workweeks, intermittent career breaks, and active and creative later years? An embrace of a life’s purpose, slowing down, staying healthy, and spending time with the people who matter? Or something, particularly in less-fortunate lands, that is far less grand?
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| | | From 5 to 100: At top is a larger-than-life image of a 5-year-old Ukrainian girl named Valeriia on the border with Poland in 2022. Above, centenarian Conrad Heyer of Maine, seen in an 170-year-old daguerrotype, is credited as the earliest-born American to be photographed. When Heyer was born, the likelihood of reaching 100 for men was less than half a percent. Read more. | | | |
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 | | MIKE ANDREWS/BRIDGEMAN/ACI | | Fast and dangerous: This type of ancient Greek warship, built to ram another vessel, once dominated the Mediterranean. The fearsome trireme propelled Athens to become a naval superpower, Nat Geo reports. (Pictured above, the Olympias, a reproduction of the ancient vessel.)
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY NICHOLE SOBECKI | | | Cute—and rescued: These five rescued cheetah cubs are corralled in a tent in front of a heater. Just six weeks old, they require feeding every few hours, Nat Geo Explorer Nichole Sobecki says. A nonprofit organization in Somaliland houses the region’s cheetahs confiscated from poachers and smugglers, Nat Geo reports. | | | |
 | | PAINTING BY STELLA VIOLANO | | The Rainbow Bridge mystery: A beloved poem has given comfort to generations of grieving pet owners, helping them imagine a new home in the afterlife for their forever friends. But who wrote the poem? Until recently, that was a mystery, but an academic sleuth tracked down the artist who wrote it at age 19. Who is she? (Above, a 2009 oil painting depicting the Rainbow Bridge.)
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Today’s soundtrack: Crooked Tree, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway
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