Are Boomers Gloom and Doomers?

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Have you seen the headlines recently? “New Study Finds Baby Boomers are in a Funk” “It’s a Bummer to Be a Boomer” and “Baby Boomers are a Gloomy Lot” Really? We don’t know about you, but we’re not feeling the urge to throw ourselves off the nearest cliff…and neither are our boomer friends. So where … Continue Reading »

Riddle: What Happens When You Mix Legos, Ancient Greeks and an Apple Engineer?

We don’t have a Video of the Week, but if we did it would be this two and a half minute bit currently making the rounds on YouTube. Andrew Carol, whose day job is in software engineering at Apple, has recreated an ancient mechanical computer, called the Antikythera Mechanism, completely out of Legos. You gotta … Continue Reading »

Walk, Don’t Run – Part 2

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This week we’ve been featuring our interview with Brent Bohlen, the author of BoomerWalk, a new book which presents the case for racewalking as a better aerobic exercise for baby boomers. According to Bohlen, racewalking is an activity that is kind to the body, but still as challenging a sport as you’ll find anywhere. Previously, … Continue Reading »

Walk, Don’t Run – And Still Get a Great Workout

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Earlier this summer, we told you about some books written just for boomers that you might want to include in your summer reading list. One was BoomerWalk, written by Brent Bohlen. Bohlen has been a prosecutor, a budget analyst, a utility regulator and legal counsel for a taxpayer organization. But most of all he has … Continue Reading »