Digested week: How potatoes dauphinoise took a chunk of my thumb … and with it my new year optimism

Now I can truly face the year with the brutal honesty, courage and low expectations it needsSome berk has invented “longevity scales”. You step on to them and the tech packed into them by said berk scans 60 biomarkers – including your blood oxygen, heart’s rhythm and pumping efficiency, the distribution of fat and muscle, especially the visceral fat around your abdominal muscles, which is apparently the stuff that’s really out to get you, cellular age – and tells you you’re a goddamn mess. Continue reading...