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Today we explore a potential scientific fountain of youth, how cooperation among strangers has, contrary to popular belief, actually increased in recent years, and how the pandemic has caused the perception of time distortion. 

Reverse Aging

• “Scientists actually reversed human aging using a revolutionary new treatment” by Mike Wehner
• https://bgr.com/science/age-reversal-oxygen-therapy/
• “Human aging process biologically reversed in world first” by Sarah Knapton
• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11/18/human-ageing-process-biologically-reversed-world-first/

Cooperation Increase

• “New study shows that cooperation among strangers in the US has increased since the 1950s” by Douglas Heingartner
  • https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/cooperation-among-strangers-is-increasing/
• “Cooperation among strangers has increased since the 1950s” by Yu Kou
  • https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2022/07/cooperation-among-strangers

Time & Covid

• “Study examines distorted time perception during pandemic” by ScienceDaily
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220823170747.htm
• “Trauma, time and mental health — new study unpacks pandemic phenomenon” By Erin Blakemore
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/09/05/covid-mental-health-time-distortion

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