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'I've realised my dream':
Italy's oldest graduate top of the class at 96

My neighbours used to ask, ‘why all this trouble at your age?’ But they couldn’t understand the importance of reaching a dream, regardless of my age.”

Paternò’s dream came to fruition last Friday, when he graduated first in his class with top honours. “It’s one of the happiest days of my entire life.I only wish my wife were here to see me. She died 14 years ago.”
Has Paternò stopped dreaming? On the contrary. “I’m considering carrying on for a master’s degree. My mother lived to be 100. If the numbers and the genetics are on my side, then I still have four years left.”

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A mystery woman dressed in silk and gold found buried under the London streets was from the elite of the Roman Empire, researchers say

Researchers say the woman was wrapped in the highest-quality silk from China, interwoven with fine gold thread made of 97 percent pure gold.
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🇮🇸 Icelandic fawn

Why It Pays to Play Around


Just as biological evolution can require a balance between natural selection, which pushes uphill, and genetic drift, which does not, so too does creativity require a balance between the selection of useful ideas—where a focused mind comes in handy—and the suspension of that selection to play, dream, or allow the mind to wander.

If mind-wandering impacts creativity, then its opposite, the control of attention practiced in mindfulness meditation, should have the opposite effects, both good and bad. And indeed it does. A 2012 study showed, for example, that mindfulness meditation, by reducing mind-wandering, can improve scores on standardized academic tests, in contrast less mindful individuals perform better on creativity tests like that just mentioned.

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