The Oldest Living Celebrities in 2023 — Best Life

Jimmy Carter during a book signing in 2018

There are some celebrities who seem like they’ve been around forever—and in some cases, that’s because their lives have actually spanned an entire century. But you still may be surprised to learn their actual ages. […]

‘It’s so alien, I’ve never heard anything like it’: folk collective Heilung on recording the world’s oldest song | Folk music

Heilung performing in Berlin in 2019

About 300,000 years ago (give or take a few millennia), the human larynx dropped downwards, an evolutionary advance as vital in separating us from the apes as the development of opposable thumbs and a large […]

100 years in 48 hours: the ‘epic’ VR film Gondwana is set in the world’s oldest tropical rainforest | Melbourne international film festival

A Strangler Fig in Gondwana

Ben Joseph Andrews and Emma Roberts stopped all the clocks the moment they arrived in the Daintree Rainforest to start a five month research trip for their epic, 48-hour, virtual reality film Gondwana. Arriving in […]