September 2024

Monday, 16 September 2024

‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul

Justin Newman, The Conversation: “In Okinawa, the best predictor of where the centenarians are is where the halls of records were bombed by the Americans during the war. … According to the Greek minister that hands out the pensions, over 9,000 people over the age of 100 are dead and collecting a pension at the same time.”

Friday, 13 September 2024

Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars

Albert Burneko, Defector: “People have this idea that life is like some kind of magical force; that the reason Mars does not have life is that life has not yet gone there; that once life goes to a place, then it just figures out how to go on living there. […] it is a testament to humans having formulated nearly all of their ideas about the nature of life from the absolute easiest (and only known) place to have life.”