What I Learned From Magazines This Week

Roz Warren

In his heyday, Burt Reynolds owned $100,000 worth of custom-made toupees.
(Vanity Fair, 12/15)

The average American looks at their phone 46 times each day.
(Time, 12/21/15)

One percent of babies worldwide are born with autism.
(Time, 12/28/15)

95% of supercenterians – people who live longer than 110 years — are women.
(Prevention, 11/15)

Having an episode of intense anger is associated with an 8.5 times greater likelihood of having a heart attack in the next two hours.
(Time, 12/28/15)

The cost of cremation in the U.S. averages between $700 and $1,200; an in-ground burial costs around $7,000.
(The New Yorker, 11/30/15)

Japan has “corpse hotels” which allow families with apartments too tiny for a home funeral to participate in the ritual preparation of a body.
(The New Yorker, 11/30/15)

The first thing Larry King reads every morning is the obits.
(NYT Magazine 08/30/15)

Leonard Nimoy’s last Tweet before he died was LLAP (Live long and prosper.)
(Time, 12/21/15)

(Roz Warren is the author of OUR BODIES, OUR SHELVES: A COLLECTION OF LIBRARY HUMOR. )

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6 thoughts on “What I Learned From Magazines This Week”

  2. Since women live up to 95% longer you mean I’ll be telling my husband to put the toilet seat down until he’s dead? 😉

  5. Seven out of 9 (7/9) of these facts concern death or baldness.

    Do you read magazines periodically?

    I think Larry King is most wise since—to paraphrase Yogi Berra—if you don’t read other people’s obits, they won’t read yours.

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