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You want to know the real signs of aging? It took the Huff/Post50 team and its Facebook fans about five minutes to come up with these 35 ways you know you are getting older. Feel free to add your own signs of aging in the comments below.

1. When you can’t find your reading glasses, it’s generally because they are on top of your head.

2. You can fall asleep but you just can’t stay asleep.

3. You don’t know anyone who can’t argue the merits of Ambien over Lunesta.

4. You see strangers at a party wearing stilettos and must resist the urge to say something to them about how they are ruining their feet.

5. When dining out with young friends, you are the only one who can figure out the tip in her head.

6. You realize your gynecologist could be your daughter, and it gets a little weird.

7. You wake up early on mornings that you could sleep in. Not by choice.

8. You like that Keith Richards looks the way he does.

9. A new washer and dryer makes you incredibly happy.

10. You order everything online because there is really no such thing as a skinny dressing room mirror.

11. You don’t actually remember the last time you stepped foot in a mall.

12. You sing along anytime you hear a Donna Summer song.

13. Sometimes, you just need to sit down.

14. You have no idea who anyone is at the Kids’ Choice Awards.

15. There is just as much trauma involved in trying on shoes as there is with bathing suits.

16. You only use teeth-brightening toothpaste.

17. You have a Kindle, but only use it for plane rides.

18. You haven’t stepped foot in a gym in years.

19. You remember when you got a daily newspaper delivered.

20. You’re on Facebook, not Twitter. And you just heard about Periscope last week.

21. Your feet hurt. A lot. Smell sometimes too.

22. You are way beyond cold cucumbers when it comes to reducing puffy under-eyes.

23. You wear sunglasses for reasons unrelated to the weather.

24. You play mental retirement math on your daily work commute.

25. More often than not, you’d rather eat in than out.

26. Before you go anywhere, you consider the parking situation.

27. You still prefer to print out directions from Mapquest than to squint at them on your phone.

28. You hear yourself and you sound just like your mother. (H/T: Suzan Michelson Cano)

29. You build raised garden beds so you don’t have to kneel in the garden.

30. You haven’t seen so much belly fat since your last pregnancy.

31. You could easily see yourself spending every day on the beach collecting sea glass and seashells. (H/T: Jeanne Uelk Champion)

32. You remember when the @ sign was only used in math problems. (H/T: Flo Selfman)

33. Sometimes when you stand up fast, you feel yourself losing balance. (H/T: Elena Corral)

34. You know at least three people who died last year who were your age or younger.

35. You clicked on this post.

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Bill and Melinda Gates believe that performing “minimal autopsies” on dead children could save countless lives.

Last week, the Gates Foundation announced that it was investing $75 million in a series of “disease surveillance sites” that will conduct post-mortem examinations on children in order to figure out “how, where and why children are getting sick and dying.” Dubbed the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network, or CHAMPS, the program will initially be launched in six locations in Africa and South Asia.

“The world needs better, more timely public health data not only to prepare for the next epidemic, but to save children’s lives now,” said Bill Gates, per a news release. “Over the past 15 years, deaths of children in developing countries have been dramatically reduced, but to continue that trend for the next 15 years, we need more definitive data about where and why children are dying. This will also better position us to respond to other diseases that may turn into an epidemic.”

In a recent interview with OZY, the Microsoft co-founder explained how and why minimally-invasive autopsies could prevent the spread of disease and spot emerging epidemics.

“In poor countries, autopsies are not done. It takes too much skill and too much finance, and you wouldn’t get permission much,” Gates said. “But the idea that you can just gather a few samples that don’t cause any defacement [to the body], and see what was in the lungs, what was in the blood, what was in the stool, then we can ascribe the diarrheal death to a particular thing. That is so important as we decide what vaccines are needed, what antibiotics are needed, and see what’s going on with these diseases.”

Knowing what children are dying from could help pinpoint a new disease or nip an emerging epidemic in the bud. Gates said he believes that such a system could have proved exceedingly useful in the case of the recent Ebola epidemic, for instance.

CHAMPS “will help make the world a healthier, safer place,” Thomas Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told The New York Times.

Convincing families to allow their children to be autopsied may be a challenge, but Melinda Gates said she believes it’s not an insurmountable one.

“[You need to] build the trust of the community,” she told OZY. “They don’t want to see more children die in their village … If you can explain how this benefits them, and benefits the global community, you can often make progress.”

Bill Gates told The Atlantic earlier this month that he hopes that CHAMPS will eventually have a presence in more locations around the world.

“We’re hoping to get partners to come in so that instead of the six centers, we can have 20, and that would add dramatically to disease surveillance in poor countries. We need ongoing capability that’s sampling places like Democratic Republic of Congo, where studies are done so irregularly that the uncertainty of what health is like there is very high,” he said.

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