SOMETHING NEW AND SOMETHING OLD

I'll start with an old, but new, topic.  This past Sunday I posted on eternal life.  Well, Time reported on The Man Who Thinks He Can Live Forever.  Absolutely fascinating article about Bryan Johnson (here below with Kate Tolo, the chief marketing officer for his company, Blueprint), and to quote:

Johnson, 46, is a centimillionaire tech entrepreneur who has spent most of the last three years in pursuit of a singular goal: don’t die. During that time, he’s spent more than $4 million developing a life-extension system called Blueprint, in which he outsources every decision involving his body to a team of doctors, who use data to develop a strict health regimen to reduce what Johnson calls his “biological age.” That system includes downing 111 pills every day, wearing a baseball cap that shoots red light into his scalp, collecting his own stool samples, and sleeping with a tiny jet pack attached to his penis to monitor his nighttime erections. Johnson thinks of any act that accelerates aging—like eating a cookie, or getting less than eight hours of sleep—as an “act of violence.” 

One more new, but old, item.  If you were lucky enough to watch the skies at night in various northern states, you saw northern lights, or the elusive aurora borealis.  These are charged particles from solar storms in the sun that reach Earth.  They collide with the magnetic field of our planet and interact with the atoms and molecules in our upper atmosphere.  The viewing was abnormally south of the norm.

Here is the National Weather Service in Wyoming announcing this AB watch, indicating potential and how to best photograph the event.  I think this video came from Germany.  Here a time-lapse video from the USA.

The best player ever in baseball Instagrammed that he had surgery yesterday.  Should be able to hit when the season starts next year, but won't pitch until 2025.  Looks like his possible billion dollar signing potential is now down to only $500 million or so.

For golfers, the women's biennial Solheim Cup will be held from September 22-24 in Malaga Spain.  Features the 12 best players each from Europe vs USA.  As in the Ryder Cup, this women's equivalent is played for honor, no money.  First held in 1990, and named after Karsten and Louis Solheim, who founded the company that makes Ping golf clubs.

The men's Ryder Cup runs from September 29 to October 1 in Rome.  Also 12 players each.  The USA hasn't won in Europe in 30 years.  Named after English businessman Sam Ryder who donated the trophy.  Began in 1927 and is held every other year.

To end, Peter O'Toole as Don Quixote singing The Impossible Dream.  The voice was that of Simon Gilbert.  Why I'm I showing this?  Well, that was 51 years ago, and old.

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