How Long Should We Live- Part II- Just About Right-
Last week I explored the life cycle of pacific salmon, which make the ultimate sacrifice for the next generation. After they spawn, they age and die rapidly, leaving the resources […]
How Long Should We Live? -Part I- Short and to the point
How long should we take to age and die? Asked another way, how long does natural selection want us to live? Let’s examine the short life by talking […]
Are you literally a PC?
Stephen Hawking created a stir when he recently talked about life after death. A form of life after death anyway. One article I found is on the link below and this […]
What is aging?
We know an old person when we see one, but what is aging, the process that got him there? In my novel characters reverse age and become younger, so part […]
The Immortal In Your Garage Part II
Last week I explored immortality when I compared Alaska’s giant mining machines, the dredges, to the human body. Two of Fairbanks’ ten dredges ran 24 hours each day and 254 […]
The Immortal In Your Garage Part I
Several weekends ago, I got a shock on my way into the Laundromat. A newspaper headline proclaimed that Fairbanks, Alaska had lost an icon. My favorite place to explore, Gold Dredge […]
Battle of the Sexes-who lives longer?
Studies have found there are four or five women centenarians for every one man over 100. It must be in those two X chromosomes, right? That’s what I thought until […]
My (Google) Search for Immortality
“You are immortal until you prove otherwise.” “…to be physically immortal means to stop death working in our own bodies – and to do that we have to eliminate any […]
How Old Are You Really?
Last month, I got a full set of x-rays from the dentist. After thirty minutes of biting down and gagging on those plastic things, the stark white profile images of […]
