David Stewart

I discovered these about a year ago when we started spending more time in the mountains. At higher altitudes, there is less atmosphere and consequently more UV. Vuarnet makes some of the last glass-lensed sunglasses, which means they can block more than polycarbonate glasses. I once interviewed a lens...

Jon Bowermaster has been at the forefront of environmental awareness for most of his life. His films are an awe-inspiring combination of beauty, storytelling, and advocacy. His life story reads like a novel. He is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, and adventurer and a six-time grantee of the National Geographic...

Basis customer for 4 years.   Meet Sarah Foster,  a Seattle-based neuroradiologist, who lives a very physically active lifestyle. Her background is as a dancer, having danced professionally with the San Francisco Ballet Company, The Boston Ballet Theater, and worked with Mikhail Baryshnikov. After decades of physical activity, exercise is hardwired...

A total do-over in mid-life, wipe the board clean and start again, not because that sounds like a great idea, but because that is what life called for at that time. Suddenly you find yourself counting the change in your pocket realizing that is all you have to eat...

How does a 64-year-old country boy from Texas become the head of business development for the 3rd largest tech company in the world, JD.com, the massive Chinese e-retailer? On the one hand, it seems improbable bordering on impossible. On the other hand, it seems somewhat inevitable. The willingness to...

COVID is affecting not only us humans, but also our elephant friends. Because of the travel restrictions in place, getting into Thailand is not currently possible. This is having a massive impact on the tourist industry there. Part of that impact is being felt by elephants, who have been part...

The biggest fitness challenge as we get older is how to calibrate our recoveries. When we were younger, we could work out as much as we wanted and not worry too much about recovery days. Now we need to pay as much attention to the time intervals between our...

Badass or sweet, thoughtful nerd? Actually both. She seems like a fearless gladiator on the streets, but she is actually a self-declared introvert nerd whose curiosity-driven age-defying motto is to just say yes — to everything. Mimi works and thrives in a business that is thought to be exclusively...

The extraordinary story of a beginning of very little promise that led to an ongoing career of impact and innovation. As a near-failing high school student, Edwin overcame dyslexia, learned how to learn, studied with the great Peter Drucker, worked in refugee camps for the UN, following his curiosity...

If there is one thing that scares me about aging, it is a decrease in mental capacity. For all of us adults, important regions of our brains — including grey matter — shrink with age. For some people, this means a loss of up to 20% of brain volume....