How to Age Gracefully. Watch Oldest Gymnast Johanna Quaas Crush This Impressive Routine. Johanna Quaas, 95, crushed a gymnastics routine in a viral video on Twitter.In the video, Quaas effortlessly nails a handstand, flip, and other impressive moves.Quaas holds the Guinness Book of World Records title of “Oldest Gymnast.”
If anyone proves that age is just a number, it’s Johanna Quaas. In a viral video shared to Twitter, the gymnast (who turned 95 this year!) Performed a series of seriously impressive flips on parallel bars in front of a cheering crowd. She’s nearly 100. He’s 2 and lives next door. Here’s how they became best friends.
Mistaken Identity Launches Social Worker into Career as Mature Model. Few people can name the moment when their life completely changed, but Fordham University professor and social worker Lyn Slater can recall the date.
In September 2014, she was waiting for a friend near Manhattan's Lincoln Center to see shows at Fashion Week. While standing on the street, foreign photographers mistook the 63-year-old for someone much more famous—they thought she was a fashion icon! They then began to snap photos, and the flurry of flashes attracted the attention of tourists passing by, who also started to take pictures. Thriving Garden in Sealed Bottle Hasn't Been Watered in Over 40 Years. When David Latimer planted a seed in a glass bottle on Easter Sunday of 1960 out of pure curiosity, he had no idea that it would flourish into a mass of greenery that would thrive untouched for several decades.
Now, over half a century later, the sealed bottle garden is still growing as vigorously as ever, filling the bottle entirely with lush plant life, despite the fact that the last time Latimer watered it was in 1972. After initially pouring some compost into the globular bottle, Latimer used a wire to carefully lower in a spiderworts seeding, and then added a pint of water to the mix. 89-Year-Old Woman is Well Known for Creative Self Portrait Photography. Learning something new can be challenging, but sometimes, it can take you places you’d never imagine.
Kimiko Nishimoto was 72 years old when she picked up a camera, and it’s transformed her life over the past 17 years. Now at 89, she's enjoying wide-spread attention for her creative self-portrait photography. Nishimoto pokes fun at herself through her bizarre compositions. Still, Life. ~ February ~ It is February, and I am humming with future tense.
I am 15 weeks pregnant today. There is an alchemy inside me happening all of the time, yet unknowable to me. I could read all of the literature to try and understand it (I won’t), but even still, it would remain mostly unfathomable, just beyond my field of vision. I joke about how intangible this all feels, but the truth is that it is so viscerally hard to trust.
Five Ways to Keep Your Brain Healthy as You Age. Like many people over 60, I sometimes lose my keys or forget the names of favorite films.
When I do, it makes me wonder: Is this the beginning of cognitive decline? Or, worse, am I fated to follow in the footsteps of my mother, who died of Lewy-body dementia in her 70s? According to neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta, CNN medical correspondent and author of the new book Keep Sharp: Building a Better Brain at Any Age, the answer is no. Forgetfulness is normal at all ages, and your genes don’t doom you to dementia. What’s important is taking care of your brain in the best way possible, he argues. William Cronon - The Trouble With Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature. By William Cronon Print-formatted version: PDF In William Cronon, ed., Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, New York: W.
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It's then blasted at high temperatures and ground down, packed up and shipped out to find a new purpose. What's left behind is a void; an empty space where something once thought permanent used to be. Such was the fate of Empire, a mining town near the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. Nuage Django Reinhardt played by Stephane Grappelli & Julian Bream. Stephane Grappelli - It Had To Be You (Grand Opera House, Belfast 1986)) (3) Facebook. "104-Year-Old" Grandpa Expresses Himself with Timeless Style. Günther Krabbenhöft has revealed that self-expression is key when it comes to creating a timeless style.
He expertly shows this in his artistic choice of clothing, which features vibrant colors, clean lines, and many classic bowties. “I find that I dress pretty normal,” Krabbenhöft admits. The 34 oddest names for groups of animals - Business Insider. (2) Every Way to Cook an Egg (59 Methods) 7 Books That Look at Nature Up Close. There is an area of Central Park called Cherry Hill, located just above the Lake and east of Strawberry Fields, that is covered in a ring of its namesake trees.
Ignored most of the year in favor of bigger, flatter picnicking spots like Sheep’s Meadow or the Great Lawn, Cherry Hill is overrun with visitors for a few weeks each spring. On a recent walk, I saw an engagement shoot, a couple taking wedding portraits, and a dozen tourists crowded under the pink boughs, all angling for a photograph that didn’t include someone else’s head. But soon the trees shed their petals for leaves, and now people indifferently pass by the slope, looking for the next Instagrammable shot. The drawbacks of treating life like a highlight reel are becoming increasingly obvious, and not just to the people who have tried to do yoga in the Central Park rowboats.
Many of us are trying to be more “present,” a term beloved by wellness blogs but which can be frustratingly hard to enact. This 26-Year-Old Can Turn Any Boring Dessert Into An Adorable Miniature Scene. If you were scolded at least once by your momma for playing with food, don't feel bad anymore because playing with food certainly pays off. This 26-year-old pastry chef from Italy, Matteo Stucchi, always believed that in a dessert, the decoration is as important as the taste. Following his Instagram nickname, his little creations remind the world of the famous book 'Gulliver's Travels'. In The Real Early Morning - Jacob Collier / Metropole Orkest @ BBC Proms.
(22) Imagination Off the Charts: Jacob Collier comes to MIT.