Day 1,369: elixir

Yet after years of false starts, the idea of a genuine elixir of longevity is taking wing.

Living to 120 is becoming an imaginable prospect

Artwork of the day 
Alchemystical Adept (Paracelsus) Lecturing on the Elixir Vitae
David Scott
Date: 1838
Style: Romanticism
Genre: history painting

Word of the day 
elixir: a substance, usually a liquid, with a magicalpower to cure, improve, or preserve something

Quote of the day
“And yet

to wine, to opium even, I prefer

the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself;

and in the wasteland of desire

your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst.”

― charles baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal