The Definitive Guide to Life After 30
Scientists are now saying that in just twenty years we have a good chance of enjoying some of the benefits of immortality. Through better understanding of how the body works, and innovations like Nanotechnology, we could all soon be enjoying significantly increased life-spans.
Ray Kurzweil, a scientist, seems to be talking about science fiction, but according [...]
Do you remember climbing trees when you were a kid? I sure do. I remember the tree climb being on of the most fun, gutsiest, and ballsiest things there was to do. After all, climbing trees was not only inherently dangerous, but it was also forbidden by the old wrinkled ones. Climbing took skill, strength, [...]
Before September 11th 2001, we were the lucky generation. For us, war, death, and destruction was a video game, an exciting movie, or at most a swift military campaign sanitized by the filters of the media. World War II and Korea were before our time and our connection with the Vietnam War came from movies [...]
I recently read an amusing article that claims thirty-something men have it all. It argues that we are at the point in life where our years of grunt work are starting to yield financial gains, younger women are attracted to our new “well-established” lifestyles, we are more attractive than ever, better in bed, and all [...]
This is pretty funny, but it paints a bleak picture of the future. According to this reference guide each generation is getting a little worse. I’m not sure all of this is totally accurate, but it is amusing anyway. One thing is for sure, the Millenials are a particularly unsavory bunch.
This originally came from MadAtoms. [...]
There is a common perception that Generation X is a forgotten generation. Stuck between the Baby Boomers and Millennials, Generation X is only about forty-six million strong. Magazine covers and popular media celebrate the boomers turning sixty, and reminisce about the summer of love and the great social change it invoked. Meanwhile the Millennials, or [...]
ARMY recruitment was up in first half of 2009, and surprisingly about 1800 of the new ARMY recruits were thirty-somethings – a 59% increase over the same time period last year. It seems as though the the morbid state of the economy is forcing otherwise non-military minded adults into becoming an army of one. And [...]
Apparently the esteemed women of generation X have earned themselves a new title. TWITs, or Teenage Women in Their Thirties, are basically women who refuse to grow up and decide to live their lives in an eternal teenage state. Much like their male counterparts who are said to have the Peter Pan-Syndrome, these women are [...]
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