Morning radar: Three things we're talking about this morning
No, this isn't Benjamin Button: But Brooke Greenberg does have us wondering about the secret to immortality. She stands 2 feet, 6 inches tall, weighs just over 15 pounds and remains mentally at the level of an 11-month-old baby.
She's also three months shy of her 18th birthday.
The Maryland girl stopped growing when she was two years old, and now hardly ages at all.
An American geneticist is now studying the child in hopes of unlocking the mysteries of aging --- and granting humans immortality.
Deadliest drug: As cocktail party season approaches, will the fact that alcohol has been deemed to be more harmful to people and their communities than methylamphetamine resonate at all? When you light up at work, will the notion that tobacco harms more acutely than GHB ring a bell?
They are some of the findings of a new study in the medical journal The Lancet, which also found that alcohol is more harmful than heroin or cocaine.
Ecstasy, mushrooms and LSD were rated as posing the least harm.
The drugs were scored for mental and physical damage, addiction, crime and costs to the economy and communities.
Does this make you reconsider your weekend drinks?
Washing is so overrated. A group of hygiene "renegades" are foregoing daily bathing and deodorant use for quick once-overs with a cloth and lemon slices smeared under the pits.
Proponents of the "trend" say the advent of cars and the end of agrarian lifestyles as the norm make daily scrubbing superfluous.
"We have never needed to wash less, and we have never done it more," Katherine Ashenburg, author of The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History, told The New York Times.
"I'm going to sound like dirty Katherine in this article," she added, "but it doesn't matter. I'm still invited to dinner parties."
Zosia Bielski