There’s a massive misconception about entrepreneurship in American culture, founded on the belief that you must be a certain age to develop your big innovative idea into a profitable...
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When Norman Lancefield purchased himself some scuba gear in 1970, he didn’t know he would be using it until 2013. In 2011 Scuba Diving Experience being the world’s oldest...
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How old were you the first time you jumped out of an airplane? If you’re Jack Green of Austin, Texas, you were 98. “At first I said to myself,...
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Back in 2001, Pavel Rezvoy was helping his son Theodore prepare for rowing from the Canary Islands to Barbados. At the time, he was in his early 60s. “It...
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What starts with the ceremonial lighting of a torch, lures thousands and thousands of contestants and features a series of athletic competitions? Is it the Olympics? Close. This is...
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Vince Simansky was 40 years old when he realized he was one of the most mature surfers on the water on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. “I also...
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The ‘smart home’ was an idea initially conceived in the late 1940s and early 1950s when new technologies were being developed and adopted by the appliance industry. Spray-mist irons...
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If you’re like most Americans, you probably eat three big meals a day. You eat the “sticks-to-your-ribs” kind of fare – the run-of-the-mill “meat n’ potatoes” platters that give...
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There exists an organization of pilots who call themselves UFOs. Unidentified Flying Objects? Not at all. They’re the United Flying Octogenarians – an international non-profit organization consisting of over...
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Two words – video games. What comes to mind? For most, it’s small children sitting too close to the TV screen, furiously mashing the buttons on their controllers while...
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