Exercise is good for your telomeres, especially in middle age people who did moderate exercise had higher telomerase activity and longer telomeres than those that did none or too much. Read More Edward 02/21/2016 No Comments
Negative interest rates and the de-monitization of money itself The lords of finance learned to drive cars on icy roads without breaks or steering, just the accelerator. Read More Edward 02/20/2016 No Comments
Rest in Peace, Umberto Eco Today, we lost a great philosopher, novelist, and academician in Umberto Eco. Read More Edward 02/19/2016 No Comments
Was Justice Scalia the victim of foul play? We are afraid of making moral judgements and so we pretend to sleep. And you can never wake someone who is just pretending to sleep. Read More Edward 02/18/2016 No Comments
Romantic love and gravity – the cosmic dance Romantic love and sexual attraction are usually doomed to failure by the conditions of their own existence. Two black holes cannot be eternally attracting each other without a destructive merging. Read More Edward 02/14/2016 No Comments
Gravity Waves heard from two colliding black holes – (Andy, did you hear about this one?) To hear gravity, you need two black holes to ‘clap’ in a 22millisecond event 1.3 billion light-years away Read More Edward 02/11/2016 1 Comment