After much reading up on it over the past couple of months, I'm firmly in favor of anti-aging research. But I haven't shouted about it anywhere but here. While the longevity space is fast gaining both attention and legitimacy, there's still a lot of people who consider it fringe and a bit kooky ( Read more... )

As I'm sure you can tell, I'm feeling very passionate about the potential for a longer human lifespan. Yet, oddly to me, many people don't feel the same. A Pew Research poll on the attitudes of Americans towards the possibility of living longer found that only 38% would want to live decades longer, and that 51% thought it would be bad for society ( Read more... )

Full marks if you read the title in Freddie Mercury's voice ( Read more... )

Lots of books claim to be 'life changing' in the blurb. Very few of them deliver on that promise. Up until recently I'd say that Richard Dawkin's 'The God Delusion' was probably the most influential book on me. Years after I first read it I had the chance to have my copy signed by him, and told Richard that "this is the book that made me give up ( Read more... )

Absolutely, totally we are all 100% doomed ( Read more... )

Nowhere - The first twenty minutes set in a dystopian Spain are brutal and feel oddly out of ( Read more... )

Time for my thoughts on Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie. I finished it several months ago and should have written about it back when it was fresher in my mind, but better late than never. If you have the slightest interest in environmental issues then I totally recommend this book! Avoiding the extremes of doomerism and denialism, she ( Read more... )

Today's good news - Jemma accompanied me to the Immigration Office this morning. I was hoping for a two year extension on my F6 Visa. With my wife applying on my behalf they gave me three ( Read more... )

My Korean Visa runs out today. Which might make you wonder, why did you not think to renew it? Well, I’ve tried. On 24th May I went on the HiKorea website to book an appointment at the immigration center, only to find that the entire month of June did not have a single slot available! So I booked for the earliest possible time I could (July 2nd ( Read more... )

Sunday afternoon. My wife is working on the market, my niece is resting and my nephew is glued to his phone ( Read more... )