Analytics According to Captain Kirk Your chances of working your way up the Star Trek command hierarchy were greatly enhanced if you did not wear a red shirt as part of your uniform. Recent analysis of crew mortality rates shows that 73 per cent of USS Enterprise crew members, from the original "five-year mission", died while wearing a red shirt. The Enterprise has a crew of 430 (startrek.com) in ... Read full entry

New Year resolutions could add years to your life. Just to follow on from the How to live forever piece. The millions of people resolving to live a healthier life in 2008 can take heart: four relatively simple, healthy behaviours may add 14 years to your life, say researchers. Even better, they help no matter how fat or unhealthy you are already. New Years' resolutions may be worth considering after all.

How to live forever. Soon there may only be but one certainty in life, taxes. The problem is though there would be no end to them as a result. "IN THE long run," as John Maynard Keynes observed, "we are all dead." True. But can the short run be elongated in a way that makes the long run longer? And if so, how, and at what cost? People have dreamt of ... Read full entry