Resetting the Genes--Reversing Aging

What was science fiction just a few years ago is being done in the laboratory, today. And now, during the COVID-19 stay-at-home, more people are studying the research and taking the plunge to reverse aging--resveratrol, nicotinamide Riboside (an NAD+ cell regenerator), and in some cases metformin, are being tested to reset aging cells--could we be at the door of the foretold millennium? Will people actually age in reverse?

Ghana's Jerry Rawlings Succumbs to COVID-19

Ghana's former Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings risked death amidst two military coups to ensure Kwame Nkrumah's vision of a Pan Africanist Africa, with Ghana ensconced as a leader, was maintained. Rawlings passed in an Accra hospital on November 12. Jerry Rawlings

Covid-19, Rethinking Our Economic Model

This Frontline episode points out how automation is changing the business landscape of America. Subsequently, the Amazons, Walmarts, McDonalds, and manufacturers are in a position to fully automate. How we respond will determine our collective future... .

Thought I'd share my Facebook posting on the Moors. Western framing of those Blacks in Renaissance Europe is errantly promulgated as enslaved people. But as I've mentioned before on this blog, the Moors brought culture to dark ages Europe. Note: the young woman in the white headscarf, column right, middle, is a Swiss girl circa late 1700s to early 1800s. 

Congressional Candidate Les Lester's Talk at the State Capitol

Hannibal's Tactical Defeat of the Romans, Won but for Reinforcements... .

The documentary was accurate in portraying a Black Hannibal, which extant sources corroborate. But the surrounding soldiers, though some were Black in the film, were European looking for the most part, in this modern version. The filmmaker did note that many of Hannibal's soldiers were from the Italian countryside. Rome had emerged as a colony of Etruria, (Etruscan coin, possibly Hannibal), even the so-called barbarian tribesmen would have been more mixed-looking than the film illustrates. There were still Etruscan city states in the time of the Punic Wars.

Tiger Woods on Golf Club Racism as a 14-year-old

Tiger Woods talks about how as a child the racism was palpable at golf clubs, where he played... .