Next, Saguenay, Canada, in the province of Quebec.  To start, some topics which made headlines in the news that were recently featured in this blog site: COVID is spreading in these regions right now — here are the symptoms to watch for. Health: COVID-19 Is Surging Again — And These Regions Are Facing The Sharpest Spikes Overall, your chance of getting COVID-19 right now is on the lower side, but it is certainly still possible, Angarone noted. Two days ago, my posting alerted you to these prospects.   Here is the alarming statistic about this article: COVID test positivity rates, which measure the percentage of positive tests out of all tests given, in the United States is 11.2% , which is up from 9.9% last week and 2.7% in May, according to CDC data. At 5%, the community is warned.  At 10%, precautions should begin! Yesterday, my posting talked about how, since the Azamara Journey left Iceland, I have mostly been in a Groundhog Day rut.  Well, yesterday, was a far...

Still on the Azamara Journey, and should arrive into St. Johns by the time this posting is completed.  In a way, the roots of this series about the science to stop and reverse began with a posting on 8May2016, a decade ago, about how life began.   Then on 13June2025 I posted on DO YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER? On 19June2025 my posting was on Lifespan Limits .  I indicated that the Turritopsis dohrnii, the Immortal Jellyfish, might live for thousands of years.  So might, perhaps, hydra.  Something to do with FoxO genes.   But Homo sapiens ? You can read the details from that posting about these people in history who took extreme measures to live longer, but here are quick summaries of what they did. The first emperor of the Qin dynasty in China, Qin Shi Huang, drank mercury to live longer.  He died at the age of 49 in 210BC, which was then way over the life expectancy.  He was the one who had buried with him the Terracota Army of Xian.  By the...

We are on a tour of Nuuk today, and will report tomorrow with photos.  For now: Nuuk is the Greenlandic word for cape. Known as Godthab in Denmark, a name used until 1879, when home rule was established. Capital and most populous city with 20,298 people, or 36% of Greenland.  The population has doubled since 1977. First occupied by pre-Inuit Saqqaq culture as far back as 2200 BC. Norse settlers came around 1000, but disappeared  for uncertain reasons during the 15th centtury. City established in 1728 by Danish-Norwegian  royal governor Claus Paarss and missionary/merchant Hans Egede. Moravian missionaries came in 1733. Paarass's colonists were mutinous soldiers, convicts and prostitutes, and most died of scurvy and other ailments in the first year. In 1733 and 1734, a smallpox epidemic killed most of the native population, as well as Egede's wife.   Hans left Greenland to return to Denmark in 1736, leaving son Poul Egede ( right) to continue his work. Godt...