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 […]
Genetics Vs. Vampires
There were gasps and applause as I finished the short reading from my in-progress novel The Phoenix Code and sat down (To read it click here). After the group reading […]
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 […]
