Hourglass: Biology of Aging blog carnival

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 9, 2009

Wel­come to the 8th edi­tion of Hour­glass, the blog car­ni­val devot­ed to biogeron­tol­ogy. Enjoy! — Use It or Lose It  Exis­tence is Won­der­ful, by Anne C. Nei­ther A Tran­shu­man­ist Nor a “Pes­simist”, And That’s Okay “I can’t sur­vive cog­ni­tive­ly in envi­ron­ments that force every­thing into false dichotomies, and nobody should feel hurt, slight­ed, or bit­ter because of my…

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MetaCarnival: A Carnival of Blog Carnivals

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 23, 2008 |

If you are a blog­ger or read blogs often, you know that there are a good num­ber of excel­lent blog car­ni­vals focused on spe­cif­ic themes. If you are inter­est­ed in med­i­cine, you know what car­ni­val to vis­it. Edu­ca­tion, the same. Biol­o­gy, neu­ro­science, nurs­ing, birds, aging, philosophy…a vari­ety of top­ics are very well cov­ered in the…

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Education and the Biology of Aging

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 14, 2008

Edu­ca­tion, Aging…two seem­ing­ly unre­lat­ed top­ics, but with more biol­o­gy in com­mon than may meet the eye… You may enjoy the most recent edi­tions of two great blog car­ni­vals: — Car­ni­val of Edu­ca­tion, host­ed by Joanne Jacobs. — Hour­glass: a car­ni­val of biogeron­tol­ogy, host­ed by Chris at Ouroboros. Chris recent­ly launched this blog car­ni­val to pro­vide a…

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