Saturday, May 18, 2024
A recent HBO series named The Last of Us received widespread acclaim among viewers. The show background describes the post-apocalyptic world after a fungus pathogen Cordyceps infects humans and controls their minds to assist the fungus’s reproduction. The same kind of fungus exists in the real world. Thankfully, it […]
Humans have been searching for immortality and slowed or reversed aging since the beginning of human civilization. Humanity’s interest in longevity spans from “immortal realms” such as the concept of Heaven in Abrahamic religions to immortal heroes in Taoist, Sumerian, and Greek mythology. Upper-class Romans during the Late Republic […]
If one were to walk into a lecture at a medical school in the early nineteenth century, one would probably hear the professor teaching about “the noxious vapors that cause disease, known as miasma.” These vapors were supposed to originate from festering organic matter that breaks down into particles of […]