Top news of the day. U.S. midterm elections on November 3, six days away.  Hope they are held and results accepted. As I mentioned yesterday, Israel is on a path to select two leaders, prime minister and president.  Could be named today, or next week, or by the end of the year.  If delayed that long, there will a second set of Knesset elections.  In the meantime, Benjamin Netanyahu carries on as Prime Minister.  The Federal Reserve voted 10-2 to hold its benchmark interest rate within the current 3.75%-4.00% range, acknowledging that inflation remains elevated.  If there was any added hint, it is that further rate hikes will still be coming on top of this high level today.  As you know, Kevin Wharsh replaced Jerome Powell as chairman in May. In a way, the roots of this series about the science to stop and reverse began with a posting on 8May2016, more than a decade ago, about how life began.   If you click on that article, at the very end I cong...

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...