/ 21 September 2023

Japan’s dementia cafes, Musk’s brain implant to start recruiting humans, and a smelly plane seat buddy…

WASHINGTON DC, USA - MARCH 9: Elon Musk, Founder and Chief Engineer of SpaceX, speaks during the Satellite 2020 Conference in Washington, DC, United States on March 9, 2020. (Photo by Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
WASHINGTON DC, USA - MARCH 9: Elon Musk, Founder and Chief Engineer of SpaceX, speaks during the Satellite 2020 Conference in Washington, DC, United States on March 9, 2020. (Photo by Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

With one in 10 people in Japan aged 80yo+, the country is taking a different approach to ageing by opening cafes staffed by people with dementia. They’re the kind of places where no one complains about a forgotten order…

Elon Musk’s Neuralink has been given the green light to recruit humans to test its experimental brain implant device with paralysed patients. Note: previous tests on animals didn’t do so well…

And a Kiwi couple has been offered a $2,000 refund from Singapore Airlines after they were seated next to a snoring/farting dog on a 13-hour flight. At least they got their money back, unlike the more than 30 guests at a recent wedding in Melbourne who got gastro

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