Win prizes! Live longer!

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, here’s a piece that tells us one way to live longer: be famous, successful, and praised. “Social status helps you live longer,” goes the article title, and it tells you just what sort of status to shoot for:

The researchers studied 524 men – 135 winners and 389 nominees – in the competition for the physics and chemistry prizes between 1901 and 1950 – the cut-off point because the full list of nominees are kept secret for 50 years. . . . “Walking across that platform in Stockholm apparently adds about two years to a scientist’s life-span. How status does this, we just don’t know,” Oswald says.

So another piece falls into place. Be multilingual, win a Nobel. More posts to follow as I flesh out this plan for long and vigorous life.

01/18/2007 | life | Comments

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