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Platinum Anniversary

April 15, 2015by lalancaster 2 Comments

A few years ago my parents, cousins, aunts and uncles all stood in a studio in our Sunday best, huddled around two empty chairs. It was my grandparent’s 5oth aniversary, […]

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Culture and Society

The Poetry of Death

March 14, 2015by lalancaster Leave a comment

I attended a writers retreat recently. The instructor was poet Erin Hollowell of Homer, Alaska. Her forthcoming collection of poetry is about the death of her mother (and sex, for […]

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Aging, Death

Personality, Genes, And Longevity

February 28, 2015by lalancaster Leave a comment

Some of my writer friends build their characters based on personality types. Whether they choose to set two characters on opposite ends of the Meyers-Briggs evaluation, or pit type A […]

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Culture and Society, Genetics

Meditate On This

February 21, 2015by lalancaster Leave a comment

My grandmother has Alzheimer’s disease. She is afraid to take a shower. She talks about her long dead father as if he is still alive. When she is at her […]

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Aging, Biology

A Dog’s Life

November 7, 2014by lalancaster Leave a comment

Although it’s not accurate that for every human year a dog ages 7 years (that’s just the puppy years and it varies by breed), our best friends have much shorter […]

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Aging, Biology

The Skinny On Calorie Restriction

October 10, 2014by lalancaster Leave a comment

Last week in my post about the Rate-of-Living Theory of why we age, I expected to tell readers that caloric restriction works for yeast, worms, and rodents, but had never […]

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Aging, Biology

Theories of Aging- Rate-of-Living Theory

October 5, 2014by lalancaster 1 Comment

My dad and I used to watch the Indianapolis 500 Race each Memorial day. Three and a half hours and 200 laps of excitement. It always happened on Sunday, so we ate […]

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Aging, Biology

Theories of Aging- This Cell Will Self-Destruct…

July 18, 2014by lalancaster Leave a comment

In an earlier post I discussed one of Alaska’s Pacific salmon. They have a life cycle that appears to benefit their species. They are born in streams, travel to the ocean where there […]

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Aging, Biology, Genetics

Theories of Aging- Errors Kill

July 4, 2014by lalancaster 2 Comments

While there is no unified theory about what causes aging in living things, there is speculation. The first theory I’ll cover in this series of posts, Theories of Aging, is […]

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Aging, Biology

The Inflammation Age

June 21, 2014by lalancaster Leave a comment

The New York Times recently reported that over 75% of Americans have some form of gum disease. I’m one of those Americans. Even though I have my teeth cleaned by […]

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Aging, Biology, Culture and Society, Genetics

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