A 2005 article in National Geographic identified three regions of the world where people have consistently shown longer life spans: Okinawa, Sardinia, and Loma Linda, California. Dan Buettner, a researcher and explorer involved with the 2005 article, decided to do a follow-up study to determine if there were more regions to be discovered. His team found an abnormally large number of people living ...

One time a warden asked a man on death row what he would like to eat for his last meal.

The inmate said, "I would like to have a huge piece of watermelon."

The warden said, "You must be kidding? This is December. Watermelons have not been planted, let alone harvested."

The inmate said, "That's okay, I don't mind waiting."

The modern world has had far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on top of another, without caring if each thing was crushed in turn. People forgot that the human soul can enjoy a thing most when there is time to think about it and be thankful for it. And by crowding things together they lost the sense of surprise; and surprise is ...