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Prof Jamie Timmons, from King's College London, told the BBC News website: "There's a healthy ageing signature that's common to all our tissues, and it appears to be prognostic for a number of things including longevity and cognitive decline. "It looks like from the age of 40 onwards you can use this to give guidance on how well an individual is ageing.".. The team said "health" and "age" were two separate entities. And while some lifestyle decisions, like spending all day on the sofa, could be bad for your health they do not appear to affect the speed your body ages. The team believe combining lifestyle factors and your biological age would give a more accurate picture of your health.
Test shows how old your body really is - BBC News
Neuropsychopharmacology, researchers from the University of Oxford and Harvard Medical School concluded that a drug called modafinil, which is typically used to treat sleep disorders, is a cognitive enhancer. Essentially, it can help normal people think better.
'Smart' drugs are getting a lot smarter - Business Insider
As you can see, unemployment does increase in an actual recession like 2008-09. However in the three subsequent pseudo-recessions the rate of unemployment did not increase. In the most recent case, Japanese consumers bought lots of goods right before the April 1, 2014 sales tax increase, and GDP fell immediately afterwards. Firms didn't lay off workers, knowing that it was simply a timing issue, not an actual recession. Massive natural disasters like the 2011 tsunami also don't impact unemployment in a big, diversified economy.
Pseudo-recessions and actual recessions, Scott Sumner | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
In just two years, the report notes, robo-advisers have boosted their assets from virtually nothing in 2012 to $14 billion by the end of 2014. And they’re just getting warmed up. Over the next 10 years, their assets under management could expand exponentially, to $5 trillion, the report speculates.
Robots could take trillions of dollars of assets from Wall Street - Business Insider
The labor force remained flat in August, meaning the participation rate is still stuck at a low 62.6%, more than three points off of its peak prior to the downturn. Some of that decline can be assigned to retiring boomers, but some remains due to persistently weak demand. The number of involuntary part-timers—those working part-time who want full-time hours—remains highly elevated at 6.5 million, though that trend too is moving in the right direction, down 700,000 over the past year.