Nice! I've had lunch with him once when he was a visiting lecturer, seemed like a really interesting guy with a fascinating career. He has some excellent anecdotes to share, I bet he was a fun professor.

There's this wonderful observation in Steven Austad's Why We Age book that goes along the lines of:

When researchers were first investigating the rural communities in far flung parts of the world where people lived an incredibly long time they almost all shared several features that might have contributed to the incredible longevity of the inhabitants:

• The communities prized their elderly and in many cases they were the leadership of the group.
• The communities were very isolated.
• Records (such as of births) were not kept.

One elderly man was approached by researchers and interviewed at the impressive age of 120. He had even managed to reach the ripe old age of 130 when the researchers returned 5 years later.

I love that this phrase interpretation changes it from: lewd sexual innuendo to radically wholesome. That's adorable.

You might think that, but selectively breeding for size can lead to insipid flavours. I'd rather eat something small and tasty. I'd eat the blueberries too.