![]() ![]() “Pathologies associated with disease seem to be postponed in caloric-restricted mice, and some pathologies never appear,” says Gordon Lithgow, a professor at the Buck Institute for Research On Aging specializing in the mechanisms of aging. Living for 1,000 years isn’t much of a boon if only the first 80-or even the first 900-are physically pleasant. Medical conditions like Alzheimer’s, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and arthritis can make the final years of one’s life an exercise in suffering. At a certain point, parts of the body stop working properly, making it difficult to enjoy the time you’ve got. There’s just one problem: More life doesn’t necessarily mean a better life. But the advances made in medicine and technology over the past century may have positioned today’s tech elite to make significant progress toward extending the human lifespan. Some, such as biotech founder Martine Rothblatt, have even called death “ optional.” Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are not the first to be obsessed with longevity-the rich and powerful of many societies have fixated on immortality. ![]() ![]() Former Googler Bill Maris says humans can make it to 500 years old hedge fund manager Joon Yun thinks 1,000 years is more on the money. ![]() The scuttlebutt around Silicon Valley is that soon we’ll soon live way, way longer. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Robert Jordan and Maria fall in love at first. Even the worldly-wise Pilar, in her memories of Finito, reveals traces of a romantic, idealistic outlook on the world. 'A sparse, masculine, world-weary meditation on death, ideology and the savagery. Even though many of the characters in For Whom the Bell Tolls take a cynical view of human nature and feel fatigued by the war, the novel still holds out hope for romantic love. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. ![]() ![]() Hemingway's great novel of the Spanish Civil War 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it' High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. Published in 1940, Ernest Hemingway’s war novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is set in 1937, near Segovia, during the Spanish Civil War. High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Description for For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ernest Hemingway Paperback. ![]() ![]() ![]() She will live with Mama and has already made a place for herself as Harland’s little sister. I’m sure she will carry scars on her heart for her dead family too. ![]() ut I just said I don’t know who, it must be a mistake.Melissa is healing up but will likely always carry a scar about as big as my hand on her shoulder and back from the fire. ![]() Mama and Savannah looked at me strange b. There was no bill inside, but no note either, and I kept looking at the address, and it was surely meant for me, but no way to know who it was from.The stage manager said, Appears you have a secret admirer, Ma’am, and smiled. I opened it up and it was ten different little packets of flower seeds. Today I was expecting a package of rouge and perfume for soap, but instead I got a folded up paper package in a real neat little printed hand I didn’t recognize. To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt: What reading level is These is My Words book? ![]() ![]() ![]() Born in MI, awoken at Howard University, and cultivated in Brooklyn, Ebony can usually be found eating out somewhere or being the undisputed Mom Friend of any group. Prior to being an author, Ebony was a brand marketing director in book publishing and worked at Penguin Random House and HarperCollins, among others. You can visit her online at and follow her on social at Ebony is the author of Love Radio-which was People magazine’s best book of the summer, a 2023 Audie Award Finalist, a 2023 Michigan Notable Book, Apple Books’ best book of 2022, an Amazon's Editor Pick and was featured on the Today Show. ![]() Ebony is the author of Love Radio-which was People magazine’s best book of the summer, a 2023 Audie Award Finalist, a 2023 Michigan Notable Book, Apple Books’ best book of 2022, an Amazon's Editor Pick and was featured on the Today Show. ![]() ![]() Get this – you have a beer in the game? You get buzzed. “The basic is good, but you gotta try the full immersion. “I, uh… I want to, but I could only afford the basic system. I prayed my borderline poverty wasn’t going to sink my chances. “Ian, yo – have you tried the full immersion unit yet, my man?”Ĭrap. “I’ve been playing OtherWorld for years, even before you guys went to virtual reality. I, of course, was putting on the best dog and pony show I possibly could. A guy in glasses, a bro-tastic dude from Sales, and a woman from HR. Three mid-level managers were sitting across the table from me, looking at my résumé. ![]() Just this once, please let things go my way. I had been laid off from my previous job three months ago, my bank account was getting perilously low, and I was a month late on rent. I had made it to the final round of interviews for a Quality Control position, and I desperately needed this. Sci-fi - elite American military group uses bleeding edge tech to fight the wars of tomorrow.Īs I sat there in the headquarters of Westek Inc., I prayed to the videogame gods for a break. ![]() LitRPG - a safecracker has to infiltrate the Russian mob, who are posing as a bunch of orcs in a virtual reality video game. Sign up here to be notified when the next book in the series is available! ![]() ![]() Porter, who suffered a severe head injury on her descent into the shelter. The water tank malfunctions nobody grabbed a watch or a clock in the midnight evacuation, so nobody can judge elapsed time the first aid kit is woefully inadequate to helping them care for Mrs. ![]() The ensemble drama that follows, interspersed with chapters on the lead-up to the disaster, is gut-wrenchingly credible. Porter manages to shut the hatch, the space and provisions planned for four people must now accommodate eleven. ![]() Nearby neighbors who know of the shelter race to claim a place, and by the time Mr. His precaution is justified on the night the sirens blare and he and his family scramble for safety through the trapdoor in the closet floor. Scott Porter's dad takes the threat of nuclear war seriously, Karen Coats and under the eye of his bemused neighbors, he constructs a bomb shelter under his sons' new bedroom addition. ![]() Alternative history has been largely coopted by steampunk of late, but here Strasser offers a far less fanciful take on the recent past-a what-if reconsideration of the Cuban Missile Crisis. ![]() ![]() Just not anything related to antebellum south (if those exist), and nothing that skews into dubious consent or falls into Alpha Male/dom stuff. I'm open to pirates, westerns, regency, ancient Greek/Roman, Victorian, etc. I'm not super picky with time periods, but basically anything pre-1950 or so is what I prefer. ![]() The enemies-to-lovers stuff was also really good, it felt "tsundere" for lack of a better term. It's just two men who meet in a battlefield, try to kill each other, then eventually fall in love. I also loved that there's no self-loathing or coming out narrative, or really any hint at it being a struggle. ![]() The monk character isn't a weakling either, but is in fact a pretty good fighter, which I also appreciated. ![]() There's a little mention of being a "lesser man" but it's dispensed with in the next line, and they both top and bottom for each other with equal passion. Some of the things I liked were that it didn't try to force "roles" on either of the characters. ![]() I just finished reading Brothers of the Wild North Sea by Harper Fox and really loved it first "pure" romance thing I've read (usually more into sci-fi/fantasy or assorted weird horror/lit) and I'm looking for more recs set in the non recent past. Full Book Name: The Lion and the Crow Author Name: Eli Easton Book Genre: Fantasy, Historical, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance, LGBT, M M Romance, Romance Series Detail: ISBN ASIN B00S8U0TT6 Edition Language: English Date of Publication: JPDF / EPUB File Name: TheLionandtheCrow-EliEaston.pdf, TheLionandthe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() HELLBOY ― VOLUME 4: THE RIGHT HAND OF DOOM HELLBOY ― VOLUME 3: THE CHAINED COFFIN AND OTHERS In addition to the standard trade paperbacks, Hellboy stories are collected in oversized hardcovers known as library editions, and paperback omnibuses. In addition to the comics, the Hellboy novels written by author Christopher Golden are also considered in-continuity. Pre-Cavendish stories tend to be primarily short, stand-alone stories. Post-Cavendish stories are usually very continuity heavy, and require the reader to be relatively familiar with Hellboy's history. There are generally two types of Hellboy stories Pre-Cavendish (stories set chronologically before the first miniseries Hellboy: Seed of Destruction) and Post-Cavendish (stories set chronologically after the first miniseries). The series, focused on the titular Hellboy, spawned the Hellboy Universe. ![]() It is also sometimes informally called the "Mignolaverse". The Hellboy Universe currently spans over eighty trade paperbacks. Its first appearance was in a black-and-white, four-page promotional comic by Mike Mignola with a script by John Byrne published by Dark Horse Comics in San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2 (August 19, 1993), distributed at the San Diego Comic-Con. The Hellboy Universe is the fictional universe of the Hellboy comic and its various spinoffs, created by Mike Mignola. ![]() ![]() ![]() I found it utterly fascinating and mesmerising to the point I couldn’t stop reading.Īudrain seemed to think of everything from Blythe’s upbringing, a largely absent mother, who was at times cruel, heartless, loveless, distant and unreachable. What followed was an outpouring of consciousness, of asking where it all went wrong, of internal conversations as to the rights and wrongs of motherly instinct and feelings. ![]() That’s when Audrain took us back to the beginning to Blythe’s life as a young girl, as a student, a girlfriend, a wife and finally a mother, the source of what we were about to read full of torment, anguish and love. ![]() Where or where did Audrain send her mind and thoughts when she wrote The Push? It felt so personal, so deep, so affecting that when I closed the final page, I had to take a deep breath, close my eyes and think about what I had just read. Wow! I consumed this book in two heartrending sittings, it was that good. The Push i s a heart-pounding exploration of motherhood, obsession and the terrible price of unconditional love. My husband Fox says I’m imagining it, but she’s different with me. I have always known that the women in my family weren’t meant to be mothers. The arrival of baby Violet was meant to be the happiest day of my life.īut as soon as I held her in my arms, I knew something wasn’t right. ‘The women in this family, we’re different. What if your experience of motherhood was nothing like what you hoped for – but everything you always feared? The Push by Ashley Audrain Michael J Books January 7th 2021 ![]() ![]() As Lena's 16th birthday approaches, bringing life-changing consequences, more questions are raised than answered, and the protracted climax is a long time coming. ![]() Ethan realizes that there is a magical dimension to stultifying Gatlinand that he, Lena, her family, and even his mother's death are all wrapped up in it. Ethan and Lena connect quickly and intensely: he sees her in his dreams, they can converse telepathically, and the discovery of a buried locket gives them Civil Warera visions. He gets his wish when he meets beautiful Lena, who arrives in town to live with her reclusive Uncle Macon (making her an outcast as well). ![]() Narrator Ethan, a high school senior being raised by his distant father and their tarot-reading housekeeper, longs to escape the history and sameness that afflicts his hometown of Gatlin, S.C. Garcia and Stohl's debut is a tale of star-crossed teenage lovers entwined with history, magic, and family. ![]() |