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...

I wasn't particularly looking forward to the expedition today, a Zodiac ride on Bonne Bay, a smallish body of sea water of around 26 square miles, with people living around it, including the town of Woody Point, off which the Viking Octantis is moored. Newfoundland and Labrador form a province, initially called Newfoundland, but since 2001 known offficially by both names. Newfoundland is an island surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, and has 95% the population of the province.  Most of them are on the east side of the island where the capital of St. John's is located. The west side, though, is where we are moored.  The total population surrounding Bonne Bay is 2,765, a drop of 4% from 2016 The population of Woody Point is 244.  Peak was reached in 1966 of 341 people. The population of Canada was 20 million in 1966, but more than doubled to 41 million today. The population of this province was 493,396 in 1966, suffered the loss of the cod industry in 1992, but still increased...