Future You Is a Stranger, Babylonian Trig, Reversed Organs
Curiosity Weekly
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Save More for Retirement Than You Ever Thought Possible
We learn that saving for retirement is hard because your brain sees future you as a stranger. One study fixed that by showing an age progressed photo of themselves, which led them to save more for retirement than people who hadn't seen their older image. We also learned that the babylonians may have been using the pythagorean theorem a thousand years before pythagoras. The best time to do it is yesterday, but the second best time is right now.
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