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Wealth adds nine years to ‘healthy’ life expectancy

By Guest PostMay 15, 2020Economy, Healthhealth inequalities, healthy life expectancy, paola zaninotto, quality of life, study of ageing, wealth

The wealthiest men and women can expect to live an additional eight to nine years free from disability compared to people in the poorest groups, according to new UCL-led research. (more…)

Make the Most of Your Golden Years by Choosing to Live Well

By Guest PostApril 20, 2019Healthdental health, golden years, jason lewis, live well, mythical water, quality of life

Growing older often gets a bum rap, and culturally, we tend to think youth is superior. For centuries, people even sought a literal fountain of youth, but thankfully, as we learn more about the aging process, it’s apparent there are ways to maintain vitality throughout our golden years without that mythical water. Here’s how you can truly enjoy optimal health as you grow older. (more…)

New Sustainable Production Method Could Advance Plastics and Pharmaceuticals

By Guest PostSeptember 2, 2018Sciencebiorenewable platform, chemical, hal alper, polyketides, quality of life, tal, triacetic acid lactone

AUSTIN, Texas — A team of chemical engineers at The University of Texas at Austin has developed a new, cost-effective method for synthetically producing a biorenewable platform chemical called triacetic acid lactone (TAL) that can be used to produce innovative new drugs and sustainable plastics at an industrial scale, as described in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (more…)

New Sustainable Production Method Could Advance Plastics and Pharmaceuticals

By Guest PostJuly 14, 2018Scienceadvance plastics, hal alper, polyketide, quality of life, tal

How Artificial Intelligence Could Change Everything

By Guest PostDecember 12, 2016Science, Technologyai, ai applications, artificial intelligence, barbara grosz, mary horvitz, peter stone, quality of life

AUSTIN, Texas — A panel of academic and industrial thinkers has looked ahead to 2030 to forecast how advances in artificial intelligence (AI) might affect life in a typical North American city – in areas diverse as transportation, healthcare and education – and spur discussion of how to ensure the safe, fair and beneficial development of these rapidly emerging technologies. (more…)

GTRI Helps Develop Improved Telemedicine System to Connect Doctors with Autism Patients in Rural Georgia

By Guest PostAugust 30, 2014Scienceanzahl von neobiota, atlanta, bernd lenzner, chemo drug, connect, develop, dietmar moser, doctor, flight attendant, georgia tech, gtri, inseln, ipad, kralovalea, neobiota, paclitaxel, pro cancer effects, quality of life, research institute, spread cancer, tsonwin hai

To get the best care for her three autistic children, Mandi Larkin would drive three hours from her family’s home in Tifton, Ga., to Marcus Autism Center in Atlanta. The drive to and from Atlanta was exhausting. Missed work, missed school and the long drive were constant sources of stress. (more…)

High-speed rail study finds that remote cities benefit from connection to global hubs

By Guest PostMarch 26, 2013Technologybakersfield, bullet trains, cangzhou, China, environmental economist, hang lung center, high speed, los angeles, matthew kahn, megacities like beijing, palmdale, qinhuangdao, quality of life, rail system, second tier, second tier cities, shijiazhuang, siqi zheng, tsinghua university, ucla, water pollution, yangquan

Bullet trains fuel real-estate booms, improve quality of life and create other unintended consequences by sharply reducing commute times from smaller cities to large megacities, economists from UCLA and China’s Tsinghua University observed in a new study in China. A similar dynamic, they said, could play out as California builds its own high-speed rail system.

Because high-speed rail effectively brings cities closer together by reducing travel times, it allows people to enjoy many of the benefits of big cities while living in “second-tier” cities far from the pollution and congestion. By making second-tier cities attractive to those who would otherwise flock to global hubs, bullet trains could act as a safety valve for crowded megacities in the developing world and ease the effects of overpopulation, the study authors report. (more…)

Social Networking: Gen Xers Connect Online as Often as They Socialize in Person

By Guest PostFebruary 8, 2013Culture, Technologyamerican youth, americans, beginning, electronic era, electronic networking, electronic social networking, face to face, Facebook, first generation, generation x, generation x report, interactions, jon d miller, longitudinal study, personal emails, quality of life, skyping, social capital, social media, Twitter, university of michigan, vital component, young adults, young women

ANN ARBOR — Young adults in Generation X are as likely to connect with friends, family and co-workers online as they are in person, according to a University of Michigan study.

In a typical month, adults in their late 30s report that they engaged in about 75 face-to-face contacts or conversations, compared to about 74 electronic contracts through personal emails or social media. (more…)

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