[Bootwizard]

Does that really matter? People have been meditating for thousands of years so 6 years is a very recent study.

[cbanek]

It's just standard HN policy to let people know it's not exactly new (but still interesting), and many people, myself included, sometimes miss publish dates. So anything that isn't this year gets the year in the title.

[stochastic_monk]

Otherwise, I’m inclined to believe that this is new because this is “Hacker News”.