The long and short of Telomeres, Life and Death

Telomeres are like biological counters in DNA that control the number of times cells can divide. I learnt a lot of fascinating things about how these play a role in ageing, regeneration and death. And more I read, more my engineering mind found them similar to loop counters of computer programs. In today's post I discuss some fascinating trivia about telomeres as well as my analogies with computer programming.

Global warming is just Gaia meeting her needs?

Find our why I think global warming is perhaps a part of natural control system of the Earth to take in more energy when its energy usage increases. The design seems set up for biosphere. It could even be the natural solution to our energy crisis, once we figure out how to artificially harness it, just how we artificially increased the energy use on Earth, outside of its usual biosphere.