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252: When We Were Young

Good Job, Brain!

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The Importance of Suspended Animation

This 1975 children's novel by Natalie Babbit is about a family who inadvertently drank from the fountain of youth. If you go eat dim sum, it's kind of a dessert shape like this fruit. Sleeping Beauty and her kingdom got to a delay aging as they fell into deep sleep because of a curse in the 1959 Disney film. The remains of a 30,000 year old Arctic ground squirrel was just discovered, preserve in ice.

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