Bilbao | We need to be challenged to grow
Tatiana Bilbao (b. 1972) is a Mexican architect. To her, the landscape plays a crucial role, and she works with it on various scales—from the Mexican countryside through urban scenes to the ‘internal landscape’ of the individual building. In 2004,
America’s elderly prisoner boom
risons are becoming America's biggest old people's homes. Now the country that locks up more people than anywhere else must deal with the consequences of a growing prison population. Growing old in prison is hard. Samuel Baxter is an inmate
Kenyon | Hint of longer lives
What controls aging? Biochemist Cynthia Kenyon has found a simple genetic mutation that can double the lifespan of a simple worm, C. Elegans. The lessons from that discovery, and others, are pointing to how we might one day significantly extend
Fischl | Advice to the Young
Eric Fischl is an internationally acclaimed American painter and sculptor whose achievements throughout his career have made him one of the most influential figurative painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Fischl was born in New York in
To live the good life
Meet Giovanni Mancusou, a small-town Italian man who lives on Italy's Mediterranean coast. The wisened Calabrian invites the viewer into his sun-washed world of bright orange sun umbrellas, cool blue seas, freshly baked pastries and fresh vegetables. Foto di Philippe Leone
Getting Stoned with Seniors
Senior citizens are the fastest growing demographic of marijuana users in the country, and they're finding more ways to use it than ever before. Foto di Alexas_Fotos
Thuret | You can grow new brain cells
Can we, as adults, grow new neurons? Neuroscientist Sandrine Thuret says that we can, and she offers research and practical advice on how we can help our brains better perform neurogenesis—improving mood, increasing memory formation and preventing the decline associated
How Sardinians live to 100
Sardinia is one of five Blue Zones in the world—places with high concentrations of some of the oldest people globally. In 2019, director Hannah Berry George was invited to the idyllic island on a press trip and took the opportunity
The Geriatric Ravers Still Smashing Drugs
It’s commonly accepted that your 20s is the time to get completely off your nut before calming down and respecting yourself. But increasingly, it seems that British people have a different idea. More than 3.7 million over-45s go raving once
Smith | Your Authentic Self at Any Age
In a talk packed with wry wisdom, pop culture queen Bevy Smith shares hard-earned lessons about authenticity, confidence, mature success and why, if you put in the work, "life gets greater later." Foto di João Ferrão
Can ageing be reversed?
Ageing has always been inevitable but fasting, epigenetic reprogramming and parabiosis are just some of the scientific techniques that seem to help people stay young. Might the Peter Pan dream become real? Foto di David Clode
Your brain as you age
As the most complex organ in your body, your brain changes radically throughout your life. Starting from before birth and continuing even after you've died. This is what happens to your brain as you age. Foto di Max Bender
Montorfano | Christina’s World
Ha corso, ha camminato. Guarda ciò che non potrà mai essere suo. Guarda ciò che era suo. È arrivata, se ne è andata.
The true costs of ageing
The rich world is ageing fast. How can societies afford the looming costs of caring for their growing elderly populations? Foto di Tiago Muraro
Mapping global population
The world's population has more than doubled since the 1970s. But a booming population is only part of the story—in some places populations are in decline. Foto di Clay Banks
Pinker | Living longer
The Italian island of Sardinia has more than six times as many centenarians as the mainland and ten times as many as North America. Why? According to longevity researcher Susan Pinker, it's not a sunny disposition or a low-fat, gluten-free
Brewer | To break a bad habit
Can we break bad habits by being more curious about them? Psychiatrist Judson Brewer studies the relationship between mindfulness and addiction — from smoking to overeating to all those other things we do even though we know they're bad for
Anghilieri | Resistenza
Trentacinque caduti e diciannove feriti. Un bilancio esigue di fronte ai quasi 70 milioni di morti del secondo conflitto mondiale.
Diamond | How societies can grow old better
There's an irony behind the latest efforts to extend human life: It's no picnic to be an old person in a youth-oriented society. Older people can become isolated, lacking meaningful work and low on funds. In this intriguing talk, Jared
Blackburn | Cells that never get old
What makes our bodies age
Rodríguez | No room for ghosts
Originally trained as an engineer, the artworks of Fernando Palma Rodríguez blur the boundaries between nature, technology and art. In the words of the artist, "Nature has been replaced by the transistor". In this video, enter the artist's home and
Peterson | L’Es, l’Ego e il Super-Io
Jordan Peterson parla di razionalità ed emozione, repressione e aggressività, cervello, sistema nervoso, sopravvivenza e riproduzione e delle idee di Freud sull'Es, sull'Ego e sul Super-Io. Foto di Max Letek
Wangechi Mutu | African diaspora
How can Afrofuturism in art inspire new futures and reclaim dark histories? Watch how a filmmaker interprets Wangechi Mutu’s, “MamaRay,” a lifesize sculpture—half woman, half manta ray— as a call to legacies of the transatlantic slave trade and lives lost
Ísberg | Writers Are Dangerous
he young star of Icelandic literature, Frída Ísberg, shares her thoughts on writing today: "In our part of the world, a lot of privileged writers have left the political debates, "she says and adds, "I hate that society is always
Criniti | Effetto Collaterale
Parigi gravava su Napoleone, per sua stessa ammissione, come una "cappa di piombo"
Kitty’s chronic illness
Positioned as a coming out film for disability, narrative short Better explores sibling relationships and ableism within the context of disabled identity, developed by British writer/director Zoe Hunter Gordon with disabled producer/associate writer Celestine Fraser Foto di Jaroslav Devia
Zomorodi | How boredom
Do you sometimes have your most creative ideas while folding laundry, washing dishes or doing nothing in particular? It's because when your body goes on autopilot, your brain gets busy forming new neural connections that connect ideas and solve problems.
Solidarity across borders
How do artists create work within their communities, in a way that helps us see injustice and shows us the way towards change? In this film we look at five artists who demonstrate the power of collaboration across borders: Outi
Lumby | Samuel-613
A 23-year-old Hasidic Jew struggles to come to terms with the tension of staying true to tradition, and life as a young man in modern Britain, in Billy Lumby's short film SAMUEL-613. Foto di Laura Siegal
Bingyi | Ink bombs
Oil and ink ‘bombs’ thrown from a helicopter onto a vast canvas, a 200-meter dry waterfall transformed with cascading paper and ink, dust, ice, soundwaves, wind, and humidity are a few of the mediums of Chinese artist Bingyi. Her work