This is a tradition that actually goes back centuries - transfusing the blood of younger people into older people to reinvigorate their youth. What is curious about this is that unless the blood types matched (and they had no knowledge of blood types) there was virtually no chance of this succeeding and a great many of these experiments - done for and by the wealthy and powerful, Popes and Kings, ended miserably for the patient.
Fast Forward a few hundred years and there comes research that actually substantiates this:
Links:
- https://www.inverse.com/article/46109-young-blood-transfusions
- https://futurism.com/fountain-youth-effect-young-blood-old-mice
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_blood_transfusion
- https://www.newscientist.com/article/2133311-human-tests-suggest-young-blood-cuts-cancer-and-alzheimers-risk/
It does seem remarkably intuitive. Now when I first read of the studies, some 2 or three years ago, I imagined a wealthy philanthropist, say Bill Gates or Warren Buffet, setting up an orphanage for young children of similar blood type, free education, room and board for a liter of blood each month. Not a bad exchange. I also imagined having a little discussion with my own children about their blood types but thought that might be taking things a little far given that I've bargained away their lungs and liver. Anyways, fast forward some more to the present day:
It's not unreasonable - given the legitimacy it's fast acquiring - to imagine that this has been going on for quite a while in other countries (CHINA?) where power and influence can purchase human organs harvested fresh to order.
And - while I generally applaud almost anything that extends quality of life, it does seem that perhaps old Montague Summers was right, Vampires do still walk the earth, and maybe we are being a bit glamoured...
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In Japanese it's pronounced "Koi No Yokan". One of those phrases for which there's no English equivalent, although I think "The Premonition of Love" works quite nicely. That feeling when you see someone for the first time and you somehow just intuitively KNOW, a little more pragmatic than "Love at first sight", it implies that you need to know them first, but when you do...
Read more at the BBC's website: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180103-the-untranslatable-japanese-phrase-that-predicts-love
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From the Latin "Hoc est Corpus" - The medieval priest holding up the bread and water and turning it into the body and blood of Christ. Hence the ignorant or superstitious peasant adapted "Hocus Pocus" to apply to any magical act of transmutation or change, the classic mockery of power and authority.
There are alternate theories of the etymology, according to Sharon Turner in The History of the Anglo-Saxons, they were believed to be derived from Ochus Bochus, a magician and demon of the north, and the old Oxford English Dictionary attributes the term term to an abbreviated "hax pax max Deus adimax", a pseudo-Latin phrase used as a magical formula by conjurers.
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Uploading 1000's of photos of the kids, "Same or different", confirming who's who in my albums, validating algorithms, this is curious, it prompts me through each of the childhoods of the children, validating the AI that's saying who's who...
Now I'm sure it's all very innocent, but it seems pretty spot on at getting the boy from ages 0-22, and the daughter 0-17, and me as well, and while it's handy to have my albums sorted it occurs to me that I maybe don't want to be assisting in the inevitable misuse this technology will entail...
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