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How Long Should We Live- Part II- Just About Right-

October 19, 2013by lalancaster 2 Comments

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 […]

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Aging, Biology, Culture and Society

How Long Should We Live? -Part I- Short and to the point

October 10, 2013by lalancaster 3 Comments

    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 […]

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Aging, Biology

Are you literally a PC?

September 25, 2013by lalancaster 2 Comments

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 […]

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What is aging?

September 22, 2013by lalancaster 3 Comments

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 […]

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Aging

The Immortal In Your Garage Part II

September 1, 2013by lalancaster 1 Comment

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 […]

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Culture and Society, Immortality

The Immortal In Your Garage Part I

August 24, 2013by lalancaster Leave a comment

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 […]

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Aging, Immortality

Battle of the Sexes-who lives longer?

August 2, 2013by lalancaster Leave a comment

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 […]

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Aging, Immortality

My (Google) Search for Immortality

July 22, 2013by lalancaster Leave a comment

“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 […]

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Aging

How Old Are You Really?

May 3, 2013by lalancaster 1 Comment

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 […]

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Aging

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