Should we be worried about the falling birthrate?

There’s a lot in the news lately about the declining birthrate in our country and across the globe. The replacement rate for the United States is set at 2.1 live births per women, which means the average number of children born to a woman required to sustain current population. These vary slightly between advanced and […]

How long should a life last?

Would you want to live for hundreds of years? I’m talking good, healthy, years. How about living forever? What is the ultimate lifespan to squeeze all we want out of life before we move on? Life expectancy in our country increased drastically over the past 225 years, from a youthful 39 in the year 1800 […]