David Attenborough's 100th Birthday(bbc.com)

841 points by defrost 5 months ago | 158 comments

BBC News article reporting on tributes led by King Charles and Queen Camilla for Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday.

People returned to live in Pompeii's ruins, archaeologists say(bbc.com)

82 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 10 comments

Oscar-winning Star Wars editor Marcia Lucas dies aged 80(bbc.com)

13 points by layer8 4 months ago | 3 comments

How England misplaced its first king(bbc.com)

50 points by breve 1 year ago | 46 comments

Martin Parr has died(bbc.co.uk)

36 points by yzydserd 10 months ago | 2 comments

Tom Stoppard has died(bbc.com)

160 points by mstep 11 months ago | 57 comments

One in ten people are older than 65. Three in four live under a leader who is(hannahritchie.substack.com)

50 points by gumby 11 days ago | 22 comments

Hannah Ritchie's Substack post analyzing the ages of world leaders and how long they've held power compared to the populations they govern.

Huntington's disease treated for first time(bbc.com)

672 points by _zie 1 year ago | 115 comments

BBC News article reporting that Huntington's disease has been successfully treated for the first time, by health and science correspondent James Gallagher.

It took my savings and 14 years but I’m about to beat arthritis(thetimes.com)

375 points by shoggouth 2 years ago | 146 comments

Times article profiling Simon Westbrook, a former Pfizer scientist who spent his redundancy money and 14 years developing an osteoarthritis treatment.

Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression(moneywise.com)

338 points by myshpa 3 years ago | 649 comments

Moneywise news article on rising homelessness among baby boomers, described by experts as a "silver tsunami," and the factors driving it.

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado(arstechnica.com)

825 points by JaimeThompson 1 year ago | 332 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the FBI raided the home of an Indiana University computer scientist whose profile was quietly removed and who has gone silent.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.