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...

That   confidential Epstein file   of A-listers who participated in his sex-trafficking efforts, which is roiling around the Trump administration, and was the pivotal issue in finally killing the partnership of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, could well be real and life-ruining.  Speaking on The Sean Spicer Show,   Alan Dershowitz , famous Harvard lawyer, who is known to be one of those in the file, now then serving as Epstein's lawyer, said he knew names so referenced.  So this issue will continue to fester, and perhaps someday explode.  Is our president a pedophile? But on to the "spiritual" topic of the day, check the internet, and you essentially get the same answer to  how best to increase your longevity for a long and healthy life. Prioritize regular exercise. Adopt a healthy and balanced diet. Cultivate strong social connects. Effectively manage stress. Don't smoke, limit alcohol (and the latest info is, eliminate this liquid), hydrate (drink e...

  Two days ago I posted  The Story of Netflix .  For those who read it--as, for some reason, there were a lot of readers--here will be the  new 2024 programs  on this streaming channel, courtesy of  Time  magazine.  Also, to aid in your watching plan, what series and films will be departing.  One series in particular caught my attention, starring Michelle Yeoh in eight episodes of  The Brothers Sun .  Who is she? Best Actress Oscar for  Everything Everything All at Once . Also in  Crazy Rich Asians ,  Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon  and  Tomorrow Never Dies . Was Miss World Malaysia 1983. She's 60 years old. I was planning to spend today doing my prediction of what would be occurring next year.  I got depressed, for it looks like Donald Trump will dominate.  So my choice of this posting today came only after I stayed in bed all morning to watch  Radio Days , a 1987 film written, directed and vo...

  For some, there is Heaven.  Of course, Heaven means different things to people, as, for example, to Fred Astaire singing   Cheek to Cheek   in Top Hat, it's dancing with Ginger Rogers.  This version finished #15 on AFR's 100 Years of 100 Songs, and   Rotten Tomatoes  reviewers gave the movie a 100% rating.   Then there was that  promise of 72 virgins in heaven  for Muslim martyrs, but you had to be a male to take advantage of this reward.  Then again, maybe not.  However, more recently, it was determined that there was a mistranslation of the  Quran , and the truth was that it was raisins, not virgins.  Some have even pinpointed white raisins. To most, though, Heaven is an ultimate place where you live in harmony and comfort forever.  Yes, an  eternal afterlife .  Yet, maybe this is only for Christians and Muslims.  Although Buddhists can attain Nirvana and Hindus can become one with the Bra...