But Swift nevertheless appears to be affected by a widespread trend: Across live music, supply and demand aren’t matching up, and core systems are breaking down.

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trend of stars posting up for residencies in select cities.

pandemic-thwarted

are you ready for it?

Live music is a mess right now

Survey conducted from Dec. 1 to Dec. 4, 2022

there was only a margin of error (see Stat Nugget below) of plus or minus 1 percentage point.

dults by Morning Consult, a company that does scientific online polling

Some of the words included in the survey, but not in the graph above, are “master bedroom,” “spirit animal” and “birthing parent.” The results for subgroups were weighted to ensure the sample accurately reflected the entire U.S. population for characteristics such as gender, age, race, education and region.

survey of 4,423 Americans

Thanksgiving Day

an Achilles’ heel

Dream

She also delivered several of her own shots at DeSantis, who tried to float above the fray, but engaged with her on China, energy policy and a handful of other issues. A confrontation between the two had been brewing, amplified by a closely watched poll that recently showed Haley and DeSantis tied for second in Iowa, where nomination balloting starts Jan. 15.

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Jockeys for Second

Poor health is frequently linked to income inequality in the United States.

Older people tend to be viewed as ‘less productive.’ It can be very hard to see what the purpose of a life in its twilight years is.

pleasure seem like an afterthought

cold-water immersion

you can’t buy health

People’s perspectives on their own health and mortality shifted with covid, a sense that we really had to look at how we’re living

People are gaining back the years that they lost through unhealthy lifestyles

for children, for women in childbirth, for young men in battle.

Old age and infirmity aren’t respected in much of our culture. We’re a young nation that seizes on the new. Throughout history, old age was venerated, synonymous with wisdom, partly because, for millennia, few humans made it to 50.

ohnson, right, tapped his son Talmage to be his plasma donor for “the world’s first multigenerational plasma exchange” in July before determining there were "no benefits" to the procedure. (Bryan Johnson)

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“the world’s second oldest profession,”

“You could come down with a cancer, Parkinson’s disease or multiple sclerosis or Lord knows what.

“this manic desperation to endlessly extend life is misguided and potentially destructive

$5,000 for 12 weeks

holy grail of biohacking and potential El Dorado of biotech wealth.

aging is going to be remarkably easy to tackle. Easier than cancer.” Also, that “we can treat it in our lifetimes.”

$125 for “age-defying” serum

Aging is a disease

With 8 percent body fat, Johnson has a chronological age of 46. His biological age, an entirely different matter in today’s quest for longevity, contains multitudes: “My left ear is 64, my heart is 37, my diaphragm is 18, and my cardiovascular capacity is in the top 1.5 percent of 18-year-olds

spending $2 million annually to slow the process of aging in his body, continually monitoring a “few hundred” biomarkers and, for his vegan diet, eating 70 pounds of vegetables every month

100 pills

tech tycoon Bryan Johnson

“Carousel” is based on Ferenc Molnar’s 1909 drama “Liliom,” about a carnival barker and his wife, Julie, who loves him even though he abuses her. It ends with a line no one could write today: “It is possible that someone may beat you and beat you and not hurt you at all.”

Adults ages 18 to 25

the survey also found that 34% of respondents reported feeling loneliness and 44% reported feeling a sense of not mattering to others.

58% of respondents said they lacked "meaning or purpose in their lives

financial worries and the pressure to achieve

Adults ages 18 to 25 are nearly twice as likely as teenagers to suffer from anxiety and depression, according to data released Tuesday by the Making Caring Common project, an initiative of Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.

One benefit, he said, is that even with their high rates of mental health struggles, young adults are more willing to speak out about the issue of mental health, which makes a difference.

Everyone is super ambitious and that creates a little bit of a toxic environment where people feel like it's a very comparative space

"And I think social media turbocharged us all of this.