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IMMORTALITY is a convenient way to skip the thorn of death. What is the biological function of death? Is it really widespread in nature or are there exceptions? View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this first of two weekend Fragments, looking at nature through the lens of time. These samples serve to illustrate the issue. Next weekend is a deeper dive into the implications of biological time. View in LinkedIn

CHRISTIANS have a quaint and pervasive obsession with the subject of immortality. It can be described as the triumph of hope over experience, or an untestable hypothesis. View in LinkedIn

DIFFERENT TIME REALITIES. A virus is seemingly happy to wait for millennia for a good time to awaken; plants famously live at slower paces than man; and a bacteria divides every 12 hours. View in LinkedIn

"WORLD, world, O world!" "But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee," "Life would not yield to age." " "(Edgar, Act 4, Scene 1), King Lear, by William Shakespeare. https://lnkd.in/eVsTRgw View in LinkedIn

TIME WARP. As the foregoing videos illustrate, an anthropomorphic time perspective can really miss another reality that occupies a slower time scale; and faster time scales such as the big bang can only be cartoonized for us. Our time window is a type of mental blinder that limits a bigger reality. View in LinkedIn

IMMORTALITY FROM A BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE is the only serious way to explore this topic. My tenure does not rely on being mainstream and avoiding hot topics, so I have the valuable freedom to venture into third rail subjects at will. View in LinkedIn

EXTREME WEATHER time lapse. https://lnkd.in/dY93ZXv View in LinkedIn

LIFE EXTENSION is the subject of the next string of postings. Frankly, I began this adventure as a vigorous skeptic, tiered of the usual cosmetic industry claims. However, I have been more than a little surprised at what I found. Join the ride and see if you too become a new optimist about the possibilities and opportunities to enter a Brave New World. View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this remarkable paper that talks about the transition from bench to bedside in the genomics world, and how it applies especially to personalized medicine. Look at Arivale Inc by Leroy Hood or Craig Venter’s Longevity Inc as commercial efforts in this exciting sector. https://bmcsystbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1752-0509-8-S2-S1 View in LinkedIn