Education Slows Down Aging

Education slow the body’s biological aging and helps you live longer.

You read that right. Rresearch reveals that higher education may do more than expand minds — it could actually slow the aging process and extend life.

New research from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health has found that people who attain higher levels of education age more slowly at the biological level and have a reduced risk of death.

Using data from the long-running Framingham Heart Study and an epigenetic tool called DunedinPACE, scientists observed that just two additional years of education were linked to a 2–3% slower pace of aging and a roughly 10% reduction in mortality risk.

The DunedinPACE clock measures biological aging by analyzing DNA changes in blood, offering a “speedometer” for how quickly the body is aging. Researchers found that individuals with higher educational mobility—those who achieved more education than their parents or siblings—tended to age more slowly and live longer.

This pattern held true across generations and within sibling comparisons, suggesting the effect isn’t just due to family background. The findings highlight education as a powerful tool for public health, offering benefits that go far beyond the classroom and deep into the biology of aging itself.

Source: Graf, G. H. J., et al. (2024). “Educational Mobility, Pace of Aging, and Lifespan Among Participants in the Framingham Heart Study.” JAMA Network Open, 1 March 2024.

Meanwhile, Scientists Say “Luck” Is Not Random — And Your Mind Shapes It

In 2019, Oxford physicists ran an experiment with electrons and found particles behaved differently depending on whether the observer expected a certain result. This confirmed a long-standing hypothesis: expectation itself changes outcomes.

Scientists call this the observer coherence effect. When you’re confident you’ll “get lucky,” your brain filters reality to highlight opportunities others ignore.

Research in Zurich found that people who believe in their luck are 3x more likely to find money, land jobs, and close deals — not because of magic, but because their brains are tuned to spot signals others miss.

Even quantum experiments with random numbers showed a strange pattern: participants’ focused intention nudged probabilities beyond statistical norms.

The lesson? Luck isn’t mysticism — it’s the power of focus aligning quantum possibilities in your favor. Every moment holds countless outcomes. Your mind helps decide which one becomes real.

Lastly, here's my photo of the Day

A Metallic Mermaid Sculpture in the Embarcadero, San Francisco