As Wednesday is sci-tech day on this blog site, with Thursday usually focused on health and well-being, I start today with a response from Google AI to my question:  What is the most promising development to halt and reverse aging? The most promising development in halting and reversing aging is cellular reprogramming (epigenetic restoration) , a technique that resets old, damaged cells to a youthful, functional state. This technology has officially entered its first FDA-approved human trials, marking a massive leap from animal studies to human medicine. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ] There is a lot history to this topic, and I have posted on this subject too many times to count, so decided that this topic will be developed into a series with the following possible episodes: Longevity range of life. A history of hopes and promises to live forever. There are various organisms capable of essentially living forever.  Can we decifer how they do this? The science of eternal life. Can there som...

Before I get into my third, and final, part of this cruise series, let me start with some more newsworthy topics.  Thursday was my pandemic day for years.  Thus, every so often I return to bring you up to date on the latest developments.  All these  subvariants  derived from that Omicron variant, and each quickly became dominant, with slightly different symptoms.  One of these will shock you. There has been a significant decline in the lost of taste and smell.  From two-thirds of early patients to now only 10-20% show these symptoms. JN.1, now the dominant subvariant, results in mostly mild symptoms. However, once JN.1 infects some, there seem to be longer-lasting symptoms. Clearly, the latest booster helps prevent contracting Covid. A competing subvariant,  BA.2.86,  also known as Pirola , a month ago made a run, but JN.1 prevailed. No variant in particular, but research has shown that some of you will begin to  lose hair  for...

Seventeen days into the Hamas attack into Israel, one of the core goals was an insurance policy to protect them from wholesale retribution.  Found was a  Hamas abduction manual  detailing instructions on how to take civilian hostages.  That is page one to the left.   No releases today, but more should be coming if Israel continues to delay their military plan to enter the Gaza Strip to eliminate the Hamas.  As long as this prospect remains, and there is no serious participation of the Hezbollah to the north, the next few weeks could well be driven by these hostage negotiations.   Donald Trump's reputation and effectiveness are as good as already lying in a coffin with daily events hammering more and more nails for his permanent doom.  In a New Hampshire speech, he compared himself to Nelson Mandela.  He just might be right and could well spend a good portion of his life in jail.  The following developments certainly are condemn...

For soccer fans, the USA plays Vietnam at 9PM EDT ( 3PM Hawaii ) on your Fox channel.  So far, there have been four games, and both New Zealand and Australia won their initial matches. Lionel Messi makes his American debut tonight at 8PM EDT ( 2PM Hawaii ) with the Miami FC against Cruz Azul in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  You need to have access to Apple TV and have an MLS season pass, plus will be in Spanish on Univision.  Team is appropriately dressed in Barbie Pink. The Open at the Royal Liverpool Golf Course has completed day 2, and Brian Harmon of the USA leads by 5 strokes over Tommy Fleetwood of Scotland.  The cut was +3, 8 strokes behind Harmon, and includes the following players:  Adam Scott, Scottie Scheffler, Brooks Koepka, Padraig Harrington, Rickie Fowler and Patrick Cantlay. At +2 was Cameron Smith, who won this tournament last year. Missing the cut were Keegan Bradley, Collin Morikawa ( 2021 winner ), Tony Finau, Billy Horschel, Justin Rose, Shane ...