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Joe Betts-LaCroix: scientist, inventor and entrepreneur in biophysics, geochemistry and electronics. Joe went to Harvard to study biophysics and got a degree in Environmental Geoscience, published quantum tunneling research (Science) from his fellowship at Caltech, did Ocean Chemistry and built robots at MIT, founded OQO which made the world's smallest PC (Guinness, 2006), filed and sold scores of patents in thermal engineering, user interfaces, electronics miniaturization, cloud computing, wireless power and tunable antennas. He  is now working to bring Halcyon Molecular to fruition. This video presents ideas of how life-extension holds the potential to radically alter our ways of living. Aging is a disease of the body which science is - right now - in the process of curing. Consider our current lives:- school, work, relationships, kids, rush to save for retirement, rush to fit in some fun stuff, then get ill and die - assuming you've managed to avoid fatal acciden

Emily, enjoying today's spring sunshine. Joyce, Felicity and Penelope pottering around the garden today. If you're wondering how the leather tuffet found its way onto the patio, ask the Jack Russell who has sat on it since mid-morning.  Never let it be said that Emily doesn't use initiative. Mum and Evelyn were here on Sunday, bringing some more of Mum's family history research with them, including some old photos.  I haven't had time to look at it properly yet.  Most of the loose notes concern the Caslin and Corrigan branches of the family.  There are also some letters from the Meaghers in New York State, America - the writer being Mum's second cousin who also has an interest in genealogy. This arrival synchronises neatly with my Aunt Mary's further researches into the McGowan family, which she mailed to me this week.  Much of this information is of too recent a date to share online, but Mary has done a lot of detailed research.  It will all be safely

I was interviewed by Morgen Bailey, and you can read it  here.   

The fourth annual Read an E-Book Week runs from March 4th to March 10th.  This Smashwords event gives readers a chance to pick up ebooks free or reduced in price, for one week only.  It also gives authors a chance to promote their work to a wider audience. The catalogue goes live at one minute past midnight on March 4 Pacific time, and expires 11:59pm on March 10. I will be participating in this too, and so you will be able to get copies of Dark Tides , Spanish Jones , Entering the Grove and Threads completely FREE.  Tamsin will be available at 75% of its usual cost. Click here to visit my Smashwords page to benefit from this week-long event. Use these codes at Smashwords checkout to get your bargains:- RE100 for Dark Tides, Spanish Jones,  Entering the Grove, Threads. REW75 for Tamsin. Note also that my ebook prices will rise following this event, so make the most of it!   

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Have you ever stopped to think about the origins of bread?  It's such a familiar food that we rarely give it much thought outside of buying more, or deciding which sandwich filling to use.  Bread is supposed to be one of the oldest foods known to humanity, dating back approximately 30,000 years when flatbread was made from starch extracted from pounded plant roots.  Grain-based bread apparently emerged around 10,000 BC, made by Neolithic peoples who used also used air-borne yeast, or yeast already found on the grains themselves, to make the dough rise a little.  If some of this dough was kept until the next day then added to a fresh batch, the yeast was passed on - as with sourdough.  The Gauls and Iberians figured out how to take foam off beer to increase the yeast content.  Elsewhere in Europe, grains were soaked in wine to access yeast.  Who was the first person to walk past a patch of wild grasses and think, "Hey, I can do something with this..?" There is a huge