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Chloe Patel | Senior Graphic Artist

Tantrums to teenage years: Navigating birthdays

Isabella Panichi March 27, 2024
I realize that it’s not the sleepover you have with your two friends at the age of six that makes you a "big girl", but at the same time, I’m not sure it is your age that makes you older either. If anything, I feel like I have regressed to the whiny sixteen-year-old girl who I used to be. Is it possible to hate who you were at sixteen when you are nineteen, but become her at twenty?
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Feeling frazzled: Bridget Jones and the dreaded ’30’ | Mad Women

Hailey Pitcher January 29, 2024
"Bridget Jones's Diary" portrays a 32-year-old "spinster's" quest for love, but should women feel pressured to have their life together before the dreaded "30?"
Ananya Sharda | Graphic Artist

Future me | Things I’ve Learned From Strangers

Lili Culhane November 28, 2023
If Past Me saw Present Me I think she’d think I’m pretty cool. I think it would make her write in her little journal something similar to this piece, about the college version of herself that she is looking forward to becoming. But she’d definitely think the reading thing is crazy. She wasn’t much of a reader. But she did like to write. “She” being me. I liked to write. And I still do. I wonder if the old lady in the little coffee shop likes to write
Yvonne Tang | Senior Graphic Artist

The end of aging as we know it? | Science Says

Benjamin Pollock March 13, 2023
While aging currently coincides with a myriad of chronic health conditions — thanks to Dr. David Sinclair’s lab at Harvard—age may soon really be just a number.
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

In A Word: Walk slower, live longer

Kim Schneider February 13, 2022
That’s the magic of the slow walk — you are focused on being, not doing, and through this effort time stretches out
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Let Your Hair Down: A society obsessed with aging

Hannah Bohn November 3, 2021
Society has a compulsive fixation on youthfulness, but to what end?
Yvonne Tang/DFP STAFF

Politics Philosophized: The commodification of age

Max Ferrandino March 10, 2021
The perceived age of an actor or actress is important, not just for the viewer's entertainment but for the overall success of a TV show or movie. Fundamentally, age is not just a number — it’s a commodity. The younger you look, the more likely you are to be successful in Hollywood.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

A Room With a View: Being forgetful is healthy

Antonia Lehnert March 8, 2021
When Nietzsche wrote, “Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders,” his aim was not to portray all forgetfulness as bliss, but rather to encourage a healthier relationship with our past and our memory.
Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced on Friday a new program that will offer free arts classes  to elderly residents. COURTESY OF PIXABAY

City announces free art classes for Boston’s aging residents

Emanne Khan October 17, 2019
The art classes will be hosted in South End, Mattapan, and Jamaica Plain. They are a part of a larger effort by the city to support Boston's older residents and combat implicit biases surrounding aging.
(From left) Michiel Huisman as Ellis Jones and Blake Lively as Adaline Bowman star in “Age of Adaline,” released Friday. PHOTO COURTESY OF LIONSGATE

REVIEW: “The Age of Adaline” dies before really living

Heather Goldin April 27, 2015

For a movie about a woman who hasn’t aged since 1937, “The Age of Adaline” spends a little too much time on the last 12 months of Adaline Bowman’s life. History buffs will find a missed opportunity...

 

A study published March 31 in “Cell Research” found facial imaging predicts aging better than blood profiles. GRAPHIC BY ALEXANDRA WIMLEY/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

As predictor of age, blood over face proves big disgrace

Navraj Narula April 7, 2015

The age old question, “How old are you?”, can be answered by analyzing a person's face, according to a new study published on March 31 in the journal Cell Research. Jing Dong “Jackie” Han, managing...

Ultraviolet rays may cause premature skin aging, BUSM research finds

Daily Free Press Admin April 29, 2013

Whether naturally or artificially, tanning in ultraviolet rays has been proven by research to be a cause of premature skin aging, according to a new study by the Boston University School of Medicine. Despite...

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