David Stewart

We are limited by several things in life. There are certain givens: how smart we are, how tall we are, who our families were, and that sort of thing. These are generally what we focus on. In math, they would say these are the fixed values. But the equation...

I enjoy lifting heavy weight. This is something I am vaguely embarrassed by, as it intersects with some rather poor style references to the steroid-pumped beefy-bodybuilder lifestyle and a certain very nerdy data tracking obsession I have. Failed Yogi Yoga seems cool. It looks sexy, it has a spiritual component to...

1. Downtime  One of our future podcast interviewees says he needs 2 hours a day of downtime. I agree. This is a time when there is no incoming new information of the audio/visual variety. There are a huge amount of learning and entertainment options that one can plug into if...

At 74, she is now, and has always been, a true future-looking savant, an icon who is just as vital and culturally influential as ever. I can think of no other designer today who has been as much of her time while at the same time envisioning the future....

One of the keys to maintaining a supple mind and outlook on life is to avail one’s self to new experiences. Just say yes is our mantra here. About a month ago, I went to see an on-stage conversation between Malcolm Gladwell, 56, and Flea, 57. Unlike most of...

It's the holidays, and the color green is on our minds. Bring on this version of a salsa verde! Great news, too, for hungry, low-skill hosts like us, as this is our kind of food prep: fast, hard to fail, but easy to impress. It is easy to substitute...

The very inspiring and always intrepid Jacqueline Depaul, 50, whom we first profiled here,  has recently entered the world of YouTube video, a medium generally associated with 18-year-old vloggers. Much like how she pioneered her modeling career at 38, she is fearlessly trying this new form of expressing her...

When designing an entirely new multivitamin, the team of scientists and researchers at Ritual questioned much of the existing thinking about what a vitamin supplement for women over 50 should include.  First, why are women being told to have more calcium? The answer we are led to believe is that...

photo Instagram @yoga_pasternak_elena Why be average? We can do so much better. 60% of Americans age 65 and over have a chronic medical condition. 80% of men age 50-54 are either overweight or obese. 73% of women aged 60 to 64 are also either overweight or obese. These horrifying stats...

All photographs by Michael O'Neill, except cover photograph by Bia Setti. “I feel very young in my head, almost a teenager. You see, I never really grew up.” Not growing up is sometimes thought of as a negative, but holding one’s sense of childlike wonder into one’s seventies can be...