Unexploded Ordnances – Curing historical amnesia and saving the world
In her 1980 paper ‘Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference’, feminist writer Audre Lorde calls the myth of the “generation gap” one of the primary tools of repressive…
Anti-Ageing… Again
Will we ever defeat death? No. But we’re doing our damnedest. Over the past… history of man-kind, there have been treatments for anti-ageing. From primitive routes such as berries and…
Scientists aim to solve the problem of aging
Many Doctor Who fans will remember the somewhat strange image of The Face of Boe who, and I hope I am not revealing any spoilers for readers, is revealed to…
The Stone Age recipe
We humans are trapped in bodies dating from the Stone Age. Living in a modern world, diseases linked to our civilization depict a major threat for the public health of…
Digging the Grim Reaper's Grave: Aubrey de Grey's call for Spade
Imagine that a terrorist organization created an airborn e virus that infected the entire human race. Suppose that if we did not develop an antidote, an eighth of the world…