March 8th, 2008
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03.08.08Living to the Age of Methuselah
Scott Wainer has a post on aging which raises the question of why anti-aging research has not gotten much attention. He advances several possible answers (the urgency of other health or social problems, religion, the certainty of death or the-we-are-all-going-to-die-anyway mentality, etc.) and suggests that more research should be done on aging.
He also asks bloggers to add their two cents on the issue and get US$20 in return plus a back link from his highly-ranked blog. Pretty good return on investment, eh? So you should take up his challenge as well before someone else grabs the 100th spot.
Anyways, of those suggested by Scott, I would think that probably the most important reason as to why anti-aging research has not gained much attention is the fact that there simply are more urgent problems out there. If you are a government official with a limited budget for instance, would you spend your money funding research on aging or would you spend it on AIDS research? The latter appears to be the more urgent problem so it won’t be surprising if the official pours the fund on it instead of the former.
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03.08.08Scholarship Information
If you are a student looking for funds so you can go to college or university, a good site to visit would be scholarships.com as it provides plenty of information on scholarships, student loans, federal financial aid, et cetera. Aside from that, the site also offers plenty of tips that could prove crucial in your scholarship search.
For instance, you should check out this section which lists some red flags that you should watch out for in order to avoid scholarship scams. Among others, it advises you to avoid scholarship schemes that demand inordinate fees, scholarship websites that charge you when you register, and scholarship awards that you supposedly “won” even though you never applied for it. Those are all very good advice, I must say.
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03.08.08The Healing Guv
Here’s our next fake magazine cover featuring Cordillera officials. Kalinga Governor Floydelia Diasen is also a nurse by profession (and a college professor to boot) so we are calling her “The Healing Guv”. Who knows, maybe the skills she learned in the health care profession will prove to be useful in healing the political wounds inflicted during the past elections.
Canada based readers, it might interest you to know that Governor Diasen worked as a nurse in Saskatchewan from 1976 to 1978. You can read more professional info on the governor here. And in case you missed our post about her first 100 days in office, you can find it here.
PHOTO CREDIT: kalinga.gov.ph. RELATED POSTS: Governor Diasen’s First 100 Days; Covering Our Officials.
