Welcome to Part I in a Series on Human Aging If you had to guess how you were going to die, you could narrow it down pretty quickly. It takes only a handful of diseases to account for over half of the deaths of Americans each year. Only five in fact – heart disease, cancer,…
Why, in many states, is it against the law to drive a car without wearing a seat belt, while at the same time completely legal to own and drive a motorcycle – sometimes even without a helmet? If riding a motorcycle is 20 times more dangerous than driving a car, and 4 times more motorcycle accidents result…
There is an extremely deep connection between life on Earth and the colors that we see. On the surface, this connection is very basic and well studied, but as we delve deeper, the questions become more profound and less explored or known. I will start from a simple question and keep asking why. Stay with…
Many people in the world believe that cell phones can cause cancer, or at the very least consider it a possibility. As a result, millions of dollars have been spent investigating the link between cell phones and cancer with little to no evidence. What if I were to tell you that if you fear cancer from…
Recently, I was sitting and thinking about all of the diet and exercise suggestions that constantly bombard us from all sides. While trying to determine which techniques would likely yield the largest benefits, I decided to start from the beginning and attempted to answer a seemingly simple question: When we lose weight, where does the weight go?…
Mitch Kirby 