“Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than...

Kottke reports that taxi and ambulance drivers have significantly lower Alzheimer's mortality than workers in almost any other profession. The difference appears to stem from constant spatial navigation — tracking locations, plotting routes, and dynamically updating mental maps. The brain stays sharper, it seems, when it's continuously reorienting itself in physical space.

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