Before reporting on our Azamara Journey cruise: About that war with Iran, ever wondered what exactly is President Donald Trump's Crushing Economic D-Day Campaign?    Well Iran responded.  Click on the link above Otherwise: Trump’s renewed economic threats come as negotiations between Washington and Tehran appear to have stalled amid disagreements over the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) , signed by both countries on June 17. I yesterday featured the science of anti-aging.  Today, Time magazine countered with: The science of longevity is booming , with researchers pursuing an increasingly ambitious goal: not simply extending life, but finding ways to keep people healthier for more of it.   TIME’s 2026 Longevity Leaders highlights 12 people pushing the field forward. They include Nobel-winning scientist Shinya Yamanaka , whose discovery helped lay the foundation for research into reprogramming human cells to behave as if they were younger, and scientists ...

Let me start with that blizzard warning this weekend.  Alaska, sure they had some snow and wind.  Perhaps that storm moving east along the Canadian-U.S. border?  Nope, the  Big Island of Hawaii .  The tops of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa began to accumulate snow last week.  The total snowfall could have been a foot by Sunday, with winds exceeding 100 MPH.  Just a typical winter over the telescopes on Mauna Kea, which might still someday build the Thirty Meter Telescope.  That  photo to the right  is actually from January of this year. More than a decade ago this blog site had a  series on eternal life .  This was linked to my  Huffington Post  article on  Science and the Future of Cloning:  Is Immortality Possible?   To quote: There are at least two pathways to continue your presence. One does not involve human cloning. Without going into telomeres and ribonucleoproteins, let me just say that science is actu...