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Lifestyle

Greenland sharks can live more than 400 years, meaning some swimming the North Atlantic today were alive when Isaac Newton was, and almost all of them spend those centuries functionally blind due to parasites clinging to their eyes

Radiocarbon dating of eye-lens tissue has revealed that Greenland sharks can live close to 400 years — and that most of them spend those centuries with a parasitic copepod eating their corneas.

Lifestyle

A lot of people mistake emotional maturity for calmness, but a better test is how someone behaves when they are tired, hungry, and mildly disappointed

Composure at a dinner party is not emotional maturity. The real test is how someone behaves when they are tired, hungry, and mildly disappointed — and the research on regulation, stress response, and everyday behaviour helps explain why.

Lifestyle

At Microsoft’s anechoic chamber in Redmond, background noise measures around minus 20 decibels — quiet enough that visitors begin to hear their own blood moving, and most cannot stand more than 45 minutes inside

Microsoft’s anechoic chamber in Redmond reaches minus 20.3 decibels — quiet enough that visitors begin to hear their own heartbeat, blood flow, and joints, and most cannot stay longer than 45 minutes.