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Alaska and Age

December 19, 2016by lalancaster 1 Comment

What could be better than a state with views like this which also gives away free money each year? Some readers know I live in Alaska and that I work […]

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Aging, Culture and Society

Pleistocene Park, Alaska

June 13, 2014by lalancaster Leave a comment

What would it be like to hunt a woolly mammoth? I’m not talking about going back in time. I’m talking about genetic engineering that could bring an extinct species back […]

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Biology, Genetics

Killing Death- Homicide

May 18, 2014by lalancaster Leave a comment

A recent homicide shook Alaskans and the rest of the country. On May first, two state troopers, dispatched from Fairbanks, were shot and killed in the tiny village of Tanana. […]

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Culture and Society, Death, Immortality

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

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

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