The Washington Post published a guide to midlife sabbaticals today, and the advice is genuinely sound — extended breaks in your late 30s and 40s reduce burnout, restore perspective, and often lead to more purposeful career decisions. The financial math, however, is another story. Also: a study published in Alzheimer's & Dementia following 2,418 people from the Health and Retirement Study finds early retirement, extended time outside the workforce, and unstable employment are all linked to measurably weaker memory and cognition later in life — and for women, early retirement equates to roughly six years of memory deficits. And Bloomberg profiled the rage retreat movement, which ranges from free scream clubs to island forest getaways, with Kristina McMenamin running RAGEher events right here in Chicago. Plus the world's oldest peace treaty, the Texas bathroom car crash, the Popeyes condom lawsuit, and a tractor house demolition.
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