An odd thing came across my desk yesterday: a reminder that some people, without meaning to, encourage not only a sense of futility and gloom, but in their dark view of the world, they end up encouraging disease, including Alzheimer’s. In the middle ages, it was common to attribute disease and suffering to god’s will […]
0The rate-limiting-step to innovation is assumption. Often, we have the infrastructure, the knowledge, and even the intelligence we need to move ahead, but stumble and fall over our own assumptions. Why didn’t Europe use immunizations hundreds of years earlier than it did? Why didn’t we discover – and make use of – the steam engine […]
0The other day I was asked about the role of denaturation of a particular protein in aging. It was a typical question that pretty much sums up the problem we have had in understanding (and doing anything about) aging during the past century. The problem is the question hides a flawed premise. It presupposes that […]
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