In EV news, I read that Toyota was planning to unveil its prototype solid-state battery powered car during the Tokyo Olympics, but is reconsidering in view of the problems the games are having. But prototypes are still due this year, and production models in another two years. Other car companies are also working on solid state batteries, which seem likely to be game changers: range 300 to 500 miles on a battery that takes a full charge in less than 10 minutes (at a commercial charging station), weight and volume less than half as much as current lithium-ion batteries, and lasts a very long time (estimated 90% of original capacity after 30 years).
Gee, they say it is now (3PM) 111F; small wonder it seems hot. We had visitors for about an hour and turned on the air conditioner for their benefit. It's currently 62F in my hometown. (When it gets into the 80's people are about ready to drop in the streets.)
Yesterday I had my intake appointment for the All of Us research study. This study aims to enroll at least a million Americans and follow them over 10 or more years to determine how their health is affected by their genes, lifestyle, and where they live. In the long run this will help doctors adjust their treatments to individual patients based on these factors (precision medicine).
When I signed up a few days ago I took a series of surveys on habits/lifestyle and personal and family medical history. Yesterday they took a series of measurements (if they were accurate I've lost 4 inches of height over the past decade or two) and took blood and urine samples. One of the things the blood will be used for is DNA analysis; I'll see all the results, of course.
This will be the only in-person visit involved. The rest will be surveys and providing access to my electronic medical records. This strikes me as an easy way to contribute to better health for all Americans.
Bill, I was just thinking today, that at three months short of 81, I haven't yet out lived my mother, my grandmother or my great grandmother. On my mother's side. On my father's, I've outlived everyone, my dad died at 55, and his parents died in their sixties.
I am 84 and to the best of my memory all the women on both sides of my family lived longer than that. Almost all, at least. Only one male survived his 50s.
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DeleteIn EV news, I read that Toyota was planning to unveil its prototype solid-state battery powered car during the Tokyo Olympics, but is reconsidering in view of the problems the games are having. But prototypes are still due this year, and production models in another two years. Other car companies are also working on solid state batteries, which seem likely to be game changers: range 300 to 500 miles on a battery that takes a full charge in less than 10 minutes (at a commercial charging station), weight and volume less than half as much as current lithium-ion batteries, and lasts a very long time (estimated 90% of original capacity after 30 years).
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ReplyDeleteGee, they say it is now (3PM) 111F; small wonder it seems hot. We had visitors for about an hour and turned on the air conditioner for their benefit. It's currently 62F in my hometown. (When it gets into the 80's people are about ready to drop in the streets.)
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ReplyDeleteYesterday I had my intake appointment for the All of Us research study. This study aims to enroll at least a million Americans and follow them over 10 or more years to determine how their health is affected by their genes, lifestyle, and where they live. In the long run this will help doctors adjust their treatments to individual patients based on these factors (precision medicine).
ReplyDeleteWhen I signed up a few days ago I took a series of surveys on habits/lifestyle and personal and family medical history. Yesterday they took a series of measurements (if they were accurate I've lost 4 inches of height over the past decade or two) and took blood and urine samples. One of the things the blood will be used for is DNA analysis; I'll see all the results, of course.
This will be the only in-person visit involved. The rest will be surveys and providing access to my electronic medical records. This strikes me as an easy way to contribute to better health for all Americans.
Bill, I was just thinking today, that at three months short of 81, I haven't yet out lived my mother, my grandmother or my great grandmother. On my mother's side. On my father's, I've outlived everyone, my dad died at 55, and his parents died in their sixties.
ReplyDeleteI am 84 and to the best of my memory all the women on both sides of my family lived longer than that. Almost all, at least. Only one male survived his 50s.
DeleteThe descendants of my paternal grandfather and his second wife are/were generally long-lived--many, perhaps most, into their nineties.
DeleteBill, would that one male be you?
DeleteMy mother died on 8/9/2001 at the age of 73, of a heart attack.
My father died on 9/8/2004 at the age of 76, of a stroke.
My grandmothers, however, lived into their 80's, of heart attack.
My grandfathers both died before my teens, I think in their 60s, both of stroke.
All the women died peacefully in their sleep...!
No, I wasn't counting myself. That male who lived into his 70s was one of my three uncles.
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