We are family of websites designed for the new generation of adults who are redefining what it means to age and are looking forward to what's next. This is a generation less defined by age than by mindset and life stage-a point in time when you are feeling older but not old, when you are still vital, engaged, and considering what you want to do with the rest of your life. At this stage in life, you are reinventing yourself for the next chapter in your life-evaluating what to do with your career, family, money, health, and time - to make the most of who you are and hope to be. Our goal is to d ..read more

The loss of an animal companion is unique to any other kind of loss from death. The grief is profound. Pets are not more or less meaningful in our lives than humans, they are just different. We choose everything about a pet's life. The toys they have, the food they eat, when and where they eliminate, how they socialize, their medical care, and when they leave the house. Everything in their life is a result of our will. And although they require less oversight in adolescence and adulthood as they did when they were babies themselves, that our total choice and control over their lives ..read more

Eating less red meat, reducing sodium, getting plenty of light exercise: Most health-conscious people are familiar with ways they can reduce their risk of heart disease. But according to a recent study, there might be a risk factor that's under the radar for many adults. As reported by Science Daily, the medical journal Open Heart has published a study that found that men in their 50s who have a resting heart rate of 75 beats per minute or higher are twice as likely to die of heart disease within 11 years than peers with a resting rate of 55 bpm or fewer. From 1993 to 2014, the study tracked ..read more

You know the drill. After paying for your three-month supply of granola bars and a decade’s worth of sandwich bags, a Costco employee will ask for your receipt. She’ll glance in your cart and - I always assumed - confirm those 90 cans of Sprite were bought and paid for. But there’s more going on here than simple theft prevention. In fact, it might just be in your head that the trusty receipt checker thinks you’re trying to embezzle your bulk items. According to Costco’s customer service site, there are two reasons that they’re actually checking your receipt each time you exit the st ..read more

True or false: Drop a cat and it will always land on its feet. Answer? It’s true-and the reason why it’s true had a very direct and practical application when it came to sending people into space. For this reason in 1969, NASA contributed funding to the paper “A Dynamical Explanation of the Falling Cat Phenomenon,” published in the International Journal of Solids and Structures, by Stanford's T.R. Kane and M.P. Scher. What was so significant about the paper was that it demonstrated that cats are physically capable of rotating their body in mid-air to right themse ..read more

These behind-the-scenes pictures show another side of legendary horror movie star Boris Karloff-or rather, another side to Billy Pratt, which was Karloff's birth name. The name “Boris Karloff” was an invention, and a very effective one. Karloff made numerous Hollywood silent films without attaining success. It wasn't until his 81st movie, when he was 44, that Karloff's breakthrough role occurred with the 1931 movie Frankenstein. He would revisit the role in 1935 with Bride of Frankenstein and in 1939 with Son of Frankenstein. The Frankenstein film franchise was an enormous success for Univers ..read more

If you think back to middle school chemistry, you’ll probably remember trying to memorize the Periodic Table of the Elements. Perhaps the Tom Lehrer song is still ingrained in your head: I wish my science teachers had showed us a poster like this. Designed by software engineer Keith Enevoldsen and spotted by Mental Floss, “The Periodic Table of Elements, in Pictures” puts the elements in our everyday lives, showing how we regularly interact with them. Keith Enevoldsen // CC BY-SA 4.0 Enevoldsen’s graphic packs in a lot of information without overwhelming students (or adults!) with facts an ..read more

Rock stars are not known for their quiet and demure personalities. In fact, the ability to trash one’s hotel room appears to be a core part of the rock star’s job description. But some stars take acting out to a whole new level, and their deeds-or rather, misdeeds-cross the thin blue line that separates the legendary and the illegal, and brings them straight into the police station. Sure, charges related to sex and drugs may not be entirely unexpected for rock-n-rollers, but larceny, aggravated assault, and even murder are also in the mix below. c. 1970 Jim Morriso ..read more

The fact that a Golden Gate Bridge exists at all is largely testament to the persistence of one man-chief engineer Joseph Strauss. While most experts had decried the project as simply out-of-the-question, due to the many difficult weather conditions exhibited across the bay, Strauss disagreed. Despite having minimal expertise in projects of this size-he had largely specialized in inland drawbridges-in 1922 Strauss presented the city with a plan 75% cheaper than any previously received. The city’s chiefs accepted. Work finally began in 1933, an ..read more

There is a persistent myth that Fidel Castro, the Communist guerrilla fighter turned Revolutionary leader, Cuban Prime Minister, and President, was, as a student, scouted as a prospect for U.S. Major League baseball teams. This is not true.  But it is true is that Castro, in common with a very high number of his fellow Cubans, adored the sport. c. 1964 Castro opens the baseball season in Havana, Cuba, 12th February 1964. Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Displaying his prowess as a pitcher, Cuban leader Fidel Castro fires one from the mo ..read more