Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Do we really want to live to be 120 years old ?

Some times I feel American medical researchers are like the man who killed the gold egg laying goose to find all the golden eggs at one time

The general public they all want instant gratification.
enter the charlatans who make money fooling people with pseudo scientific mumbo jumbo.

I can give you umpteen number of examples

Antioxidants
Growth hormone
Testosterone
Estrogen
DHEA
Resevetrol
Megavitamins
Probiotics
Olive oil
Goat cheese
Super Ubiquinol CoQ10 with Enhanced Mitochondrial Support
Super Omega-3
EPA/DHA with Sesame Lignans
Olive Extract
Optimized Chromium with Crominex 3+
Arthromax Advanced with UC-II
ApresFlex
Dihydroquercetin
Benfotiamine2
Antibiotic
Choline1
Jarrow Formulas6
Super K with Advanced K2 Complex
Methylcobalamin
Sesame Lignans
Sea-Iodine™

(all you need to make a product special and expensive is add sea /coral/shell/natural in front of normal regular ingredients like salt, calcium ,iodine, etc )
Flaxseed
Folic Acid
Ginko
Glucosamine
Melatonin
Niacin
Magnesium
Probiotics
Red Yeast Rice
St. John's Wort
Vitamin C
Vitamin D
Vitamin E
FRUCTO - OLIGOSACCHARIDES (other names for the same /Beta-D-fructofuranosidase, Bêta-D-Fructofuranosidase, Chicory Inulin Hydrolysate, Complexe d’Oligosaccharide, FOS, Fructo Oligo Saccharides, Fructo-Oligosacáridos, Fructooligosaccharides, Fructo-Oligosaccharides à Courte Chaîne, Inulin Hydrolysate, Oligofructose, Oligosaccharide Complex, Oligosaccharides, Prebiotic, Prébiotique, SC-FOS, Short Chain Fructo-Oligosaccharides.)

. "People are living longer. In 1970, the average life expectancy at birth in the United States was 70.8 years; in 2008, it was 78.0 years; and by 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau projects life expectancy will reach 79.5 years. Views on aging are also changing. Disease and disability were once considered an inevitable part of growing older, but that is no longer true. While aging does put us at greater risk for health issues, many older adults can be healthy and active well into their advancing years."(National Institute on Aging)

In Palo Alto in the heart of Silicon Valley, hedge fund manager Joon Yun is doing a back-of-the-envelope calculation. According to US social security data, he says, the probability of a 25-year-old dying before their 26th birthday is 0.1%. If we could keep that risk constant throughout life instead of it rising due to age-related disease, the average person would – statistically speaking – live 1,000 years.
Yun finds the prospect tantalizing and even believable. Late last year he launched a $1m prize challenging scientists to “hack the code of life” and push human lifespan past its apparent maximum of about 120 years (the longest known/confirmed lifespan was 122 years).

the following are his advisers
I remember an episode of old star trek where the team visits a planet where people are young forever and live forever
they beg the startrek team to infect them with some of the viruses and bacteria carried by the team

VICTOR DZAU, M.D.

President of the Institute of Medicine

LEONARD GUARENTE, Ph.D.

Director, Glenn Laboratory for the Science of Aging at MIT

Dr. STUART KIM, Ph.D

Professor, Depts. of Developmental Biology and Genetics

Stanford University Medical Center

DAVID SINCLAIR, Ph.D.

Professor, Genetics Dept. Harvard Medical School

JOHN SEDIVY Ph.D.

Brown Faculty, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry

KEITH BLACKWELL, M.D, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator, The Blackwell Lab at the Joslin Diabetes Center

SUSAN PESCHIN

President and CEO

Alliance for Aging Research

RUSSEL J. REITER, Ph.D., Dr.H.C.MULT.

Professor of Cell Biology, UT Health Science Center

STEVE JURVETSON

Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

JACK HIDARY

Founder, Hidary Foundation

FRANK LONGO, M.D.

Professor and Chair, Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University

CHARLES CHO, M.D.

Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Stanford University

ERIC VERDIN, M.D.

Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology Professor, UCSF School of Medicine

KEVIN PERROTT

Executive Director – Mprize, Methuselah Foundation

Joon Yun, M.D.

Joon Yun, M.D. Benefactor of the Palo Alto Longevity Prize Joon is the President of Palo Alto Investors, LLC, founded in 1989 with $1 billion in assets under management invested in healthcare. Board certified in radiology, Dr. Yun served on the clinical staff at Stanford Hospital from 2000-2006. Dr. Yun received his Bachelor of Arts in biology from Harvard University and his Doctor of Medicine from Duke University School of Medicine. He is a contributor to Forbes. Follow him on Twitter @DrJoonYun.

How will a Trump presidency look like ?

with the swooning of Hillary from Pneumonia and this "Thug" who bombed New York with home made bombs, it looks like Trump may win the presidency.

How will a Trump presidency look like ?

If you are white skinned and good looking you will be accepted without questions, even if you are in this country illegally and can not speak English.
If you are a young female model, even better some real estate tycoon will take you as his nth wife. there is a possibility you may become the first lady.

Even if your father and grand father were US citizens and you were born in this country.
If you are of any other skin color or have funny names which do not belong in the bible ,you are out of luck.

The mentality which made Japanese internment camps possible during WWII will be resurrected.
there will be a Unit 731 in every state.

" Japanese people at the time looked down upon people of other countries. Even now, as Japan is an isolated island country, there are only a few chances to communicate with foreigners. In addition, eugenic and racist ideologies were prevalent in Japan, as well as in western countries. Consequently, most Japanese then had prejudice against people in other Asian and European countries and discriminated against them. They thought Chinese, Korean, Mongolian, Russian, American, English, etc. were beings that need not be treated humanely, especially in wartime."

Sound familiar ?

US army will bomb the middle east with nukes to kingdom come.

we will go back to using steam engines burning the Virginia coal dug up by the hardworking red blooded American labor.
There will be a large sign on the Washington memorial " America is great again"

There will be a wall between USA and mexico and all those Americans trying to flee USA and in to Mexico will be shot by the national guard.

How will a Trump presidency look like ?

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Will we never learn?

Just a few months ago i wrote a blogpost about such Ponzi schemes .
I blame the investors equally as the perptrators of such schemes
if the returns are too good to be true then they are not true and do not invest in such schemes.

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested three directors of two ponzi companies in separate cases of allegedly duping people to the tune of over Rs. 620 crore.

In the first case against Infinity Realcon, the CBI has arrested its directors Pranab Mukherjee and Prabir Kumar Mukherjee for allegedly duping the people through lucrative ponzi schemes.

"It was alleged that the accused, in a criminal conspiracy with others, had illegally collected Rs 565 crore from poor investors after fraudulently promising them high returns without any permission from regulatory bodies. In pursuance of that, they allegedly committed cheating and criminal misappropriation of public funds," CBI Spokesperson said.

In a separate case, CBI has arrested Sankar Saha, then Director of PAFL Industries Ltd, a Kolkata-based company.

CBI spokesperson said Saha allegedly collected Rs 60 crore illegally from gullible investors after promising lucrative rates of interest on their deposits.

"They allegedly committed cheating and criminal misappropriation of public funds," she said.

The cases were registered by the agency on the orders of Supreme Court on May 09, 2014 passed against the officials of said private companies.

Sunday, September 11, 2016

People ran their public corporations into bankruptcy,were saved from bankruptcy by the United States government

The line between gambling and investing is artificial and thin. The soundest investment has the defining trait of a bet (you losing all of your money in hopes of making a bit more), and the wildest speculation has the salient characteristic of an investment (you might get your money back with interest). Maybe the best definition of "investing" is "gambling with the odds in your favor." The people on the short side of the subprime mortgage market had gambled with the odds in their favor. The people on the other side--the entire financial system, essentially--had gambled with the odds against them. Up to this point, the story of the big short could not be simpler. What's strange and complicated about it, however, is that pretty much all the important people on both sides of the gamble left the table rich. Steve Eisman and Michael Burry and the young men at Cornwall Capital each made tens of millions of dollars for themselves, of course. Greg Lippmann was paid $47 million in 2007, although $24 million of it was in restricted stock that he could not collect unless he hung around Deutsche Bank for a few more years. But all of these people had been right; they'd been on the winning end of the bet. Wing Chau's CDO managing business went bust, but he, too, left with tens of millions of dollars--and had the nerve to attempt to create a business that would buy up, cheaply, the very same subprime mortgage bonds in which he had lost billions of dollars' worth of other people's money. Howie Hubler lost more money than any single trader in the history of Wall Street--and yet he was permitted to keep the tens of millions of dollars he had made. The CEOs of every major Wall Street firm were also on the wrong end of the gamble. All of them, without exception, either ran their public corporations into bankruptcy or were saved from bankruptcy by the United States government. They all got rich, too.

ANANDAN what is research

Speaking about research as an activity “driven by curiosity to work on a problem that may not benefit anyone today or tomorrow, but needs to be done,” Dr. Anandan emphasised on the need for researchers to work towards success and not “lead to nothingness.”

“In research, you can think without constraint, but think about real things,” he said.

But he mentioned how less than 1,000 engineers sign up for Ph.D programmes every year in India.

“We simply do not have enough people going into research. The quality of research is also better in the U.S. and even in China. But Indian research is stronger in chemistry and math, and to an extent in physics and biology,” he said.

ENGINEERING EDUCATION

He told the engineering seat aspirants that the course prepares them to do three things: technical engineering, basic researching and entrepreneurship. “A solid professional education can help you be an expert, explorer and entrepreneur,” he added.

ON JOBS

Dr. Anandan begged to differ on the usual perception of jobs. “A job has many negative connotations such as something routine, bound to do, and what you are being paid to do, and not about discovering the true potential.