Coleen T. Murphy’s lucidly written and meticulously researched How We Age wins Critical Aging Summer. Comprehensive but still accessible, and free of unnecessary hype.

Open tabs get their own post today. This approach to note taking might become a regular feature. It’s positively cathartic to close tabs this way.

Summer is always a mess. A mess of camps, with their shifting pick-up and drop-off times, of travel and lab and family commitments, and a collapsing republic. But books provide some welcome groundi…

Chelsea Sedoti’s Tell Me What Really Happened is a kinetic high school mystery that hits all the hot issues: Guns, race, class, social media… … and Sasquatch!

Longevity gurus are unavoidable, but Peter Attia and Bill Gifford’s Outlive was better than I expected. Leaving aside the author’s personal failings, it does a good job of explaining co…

Margareta Magnusson’s delightful diptych about growing old and letting go shows that healthy aging is all about attitude… if you’re lucky enough to do it in a robust welfare state.

Have we got aging all wrong? Josh Mitteldorf and Dorion Sagan sure think so! Cracking the Aging Code is a book whose central argument boils down to “aging is good for the species and the plan…

Have we got aging all wrong? Josh Mitteldorf and Dorion Sagan sure think so! Cracking the Aging Code is a book whose central argument boils down to “aging is good for the species and the plan…

This week, Adam talks with Alondra Nelson, sociologist and former head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under Joe Biden. They talk about the destruction of scientific researc...

Book six of Critical Aging Summer is a cranky polemic about how attempting to do anything for your health is pretty much pointless, because you’ll die no matter what you do. Barbara Ehrenreic…

Steven Austad’s delightful Methuselah’s Zoo is worth reading even if you don’t care about aging or longevity. It’s an engrossing work of natural history, detailing the very …