Why are babies born young? This sounds like an odd question. People would say "of course babies are born young". However, this goes to the core of the question of human (or animal) development. Why is it that as time passes people develop initially through puberty and then for women through menopause and more generally getting diseases such as sarcopenia, osteoporosis, diabetes and cancer, but most of the time babies start showing no signs of this. Lots of research into this has happened over the years and now I think it is clear why this is. It raises some interesting questions. Biological youth is about how well a cell functions. Cells that are old in a biological sense don't work that well. One of the ways in which cells stop working is they fail to produce the full range of proteins. Generally the proteins that are produced from longer genes stop being produced. The reason for this relates to how the Genes work (the Genome). Because the genome is not gettin
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Local government doesn't seem to attract the 'brightest and the best' in any circumstances but this campaign was particularly mediocre- inappropriately personal and nasty.
Plaid Cymru and Labour canvassers seemed to find it hilarious that anyone would 'waste' a vote on a candidate that they actually wanted to vote for, in preference to tactical voting.
We desperately need PR to raise the quality of the discussion over the heads of these arrogant bullying rat-bags who take the electorate for granted.