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Time Flies, Human Microbiome, Smartphone Death Predictor


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Today you’ll learn about how time flies as we age, how scientists are learning more and more about the microbiome within a human body, and the potential for a new phone app that can predict when you might die.

Time Flies 

  • “Why Does 'Time Fly' As We Get Older?” by Christopher Dwyer
    • https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/thoughts-thinking/202209/why-does-time-fly-we-get-older
  • “Why time flies so fast as we get older” BY ABIGAIL SAWYER
    • https://www.biotechniques.com/cell-and-tissue-biology/why-time-flies-as-we-get-older/

Human Microbiome

  • “Scientists Have Made A Human Microbiome From Scratch” by Carl Zimmer
    • https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/06/science/human-microbiome-bacteria.html
  • “Design, construction, and in vivo augmentation of a complex gut microbiome” by Alice G. Cheng et al.
    • https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)00990-4?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867422009904%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

Smartphone Death Predictor  

  • “Your smartphone could be used to estimate your risk of dying” by Grace Wade
    • https://www.newscientist.com/article/2343342-your-smartphone-could-be-used-to-estimate-your-risk-of-dying/
  • “Smartphones could be used to predict a person's risk of dying, study finds” by Cathal Ryan
    • https://www.buzz.ie/lifestyle/health/study-predict-mortality-rates-smartphone-28316953
  • “Population analysis of mortality risk: Predictive models from passive monitors using motion sensors for 100,000 UK Biobank participants” by Haowen Zhou, Ruoqing Zhu, Anita Ung, and Bruce Schatz
    • https://journals.plos.org/digitalhealth/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pdig.0000045

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