Half Full or Half Empty and Longevity
For many years researchers pointed to lower rates of heart disease among optimists and believed optimism led to greater longevity. In the last few years, new research is starting to […]
Category Archives: Culture and Society
Modern Immortals- Jay Z
Sometimes a youthful appearance without significant aging and an old picture of a person’s doppelganger is enough to spark rumors of immortality. Sometimes, the person takes actions that feed those claims. That’s […]
Poll Results- Good News For Bacon
The poll results are in and it looks like good news for bacon and its fans. Last week I asked who was going to reduce or eliminate processed meats from […]
Immortality and Memory- The Forgetting
Last week, I discussed photographic memory and whether it exists and it made me think about immortality and memory. I recently asked readers about immortality in general and one of […]
Photographic Memory- Fact or Fiction?
I initially thought that my protagonist should have a photographic memory. It would be interesting for someone 250+ years old to remember almost anything he’d seen with high accuracy. He […]
Modern Immortals: Nicholas Cage
In 2011 a photo was placed on ebay. It was a simple picture of an unnamed man taken after the Civil War. According to the seller, it was worth 1 million […]
If Women Ran the World
Last post, I explored some of the biological reasons women live longer than men. It made me wonder what the world would look like if women continue to live longer than […]
Immortal Trash
A week ago in the grocery store checkout line, someone condescendingly asked me why I use cloth bags. I was surprised soI uttered something like, “I can’t throw them away […]
An Eternal Student
If you would never age and never die, would you ever get tired of living?If you asked me ten years ago, I would have said no. Now I’m not so […]
Modern Immortals: Leonard “Live-Forever” Jones
We’ve all seen some pretty wacky political candidates, but Leonard “Live-Forever” Jones (1797-no real surprise 1868) might beat them all. He ran for each presidential election from the 1840s until […]
The Phoenix Series 