Nothing much happening about wars in Iran and Ukraine, but as messy as the world economy might be, the U.S. stock markets are continuing to BREAK ALL-TIME RECORDS .  To the right, Peter Tuchman, the Einstein of Wall Street. The S&P 500 added 0.6% to close at 7819, hitting an intraday high of 7844.  This was its 28th record close just in 2026. The Nasdaq Composite rose 0.45% to a record 27,600, with an intraday high of 27,723.  NVIDIA went up to a new high, opening at $242/share, and ended at $239.24, just below its all-time high. NVIDIA was only 185.54/share a year ago. Ten years ago?  $1.78/share. If you bought $1000 worth of NVIDIA stock at the 1999 IPO, this would  be worth $6,369,667 today!!! The Dow Jones Industrial Average went up 0.5% to 51,527.  The all-time closing high on 5August2026 is 54,340, after rising to an intraday high of 54,744. The USA is exactly four weeks away from 3November2026, the day of the mid-term elections. Can President Do...

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...