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October 7, 2022

“Superagers” With Amazing Memory Retention May Have “Super Neurons,” Study Suggests

Though normal aging is associated with gradual memory loss, some sharp seniors can recollect events with startling clarity well into their sunset years. Northwestern University researchers have dubbed these people “superagers” — individuals at least 80 years old with the memory retention of those up to three decades younger. A new study now suggests that […]

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Jim Metzner Collected the World’s Sounds for Over 50 Years. Now They’ll Be Preserved at the Library of Congress

For the last five decades, recordist Jim Metzner has dedicated his life to sound. Everywhere from the bottom of the ocean off the coast of New York to panda habitats in Tibet and Jupiter’s intense radio storms, he leaned in to listen, sharing much of what he heard on his long-running radio series, Pulse of

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a black and white photo of Jim Metzner recording in a field on Great Gull Island
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