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Hong Kong overtook Japan around 2013 to record the world’s highest life expectancy, with women now averaging 88.7 years and men 83.3. Researchers found no single longevity secret, but unusually low smoking-related mortality explains much of its advantage, while dense neighbourhoods, accessible services and heavily subsidised public transport may help older residents remain active.
20+ hour, 34+ min ago (1169+ words) Hong Kong's provisional 2025 life expectancy is 88.7 years for women and 83.3 for men. Low smoking-related mortality explains a large measured share of its advantage, while urban design remains a plausible factor. By The Long View · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September…...
Namibia's capital has been drinking its own sewage since 1968, when eight years of pilot work produced a system whose current plant pushes 21,000 cubic meters a day through a ten-step treatment process before the water reaches a kitchen tap again.
1+ week, 1+ day ago (542+ words) When a desert city runs dry, recycling sewage into tap water stops being taboo and becomes survival—a technology now copied worldwide but perfected first in Windhoek over fifty years ago. By The Long View · Edited by Mal James Published…...
If you retire at 65 and live to 90, you may have around 1,300 ordinary Tuesdays ahead of you — yet most retirement plans focus on money and holidays rather than how those days will actually feel
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1531+ words) The freedom to do anything turns out to be surprisingly different from the freedom to do something meaningful. Published August 26, 2026 · How we edit A few months into my own retirement, I began to understand something I had not expected. I…...
Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius: "take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, I have been harmed; take away the complaint, and the harm is taken away"
3+ week, 4+ day ago (399+ words) The Stoic secret isn't denying that bad things happen—it's recognizing that your suffering comes not from the event itself, but from the story you tell about it. Published August 20, 2026 · How we edit When people first hear this line, a…...