A transhumanism book about your future
HARRY ROSEN IS 103. He lives alone in a studio apartment on West 57th Street in Manhattan. His hearing has declined and he a bit far-sighted but his mind is as sharp as most men half his age. Still, he doesn’t remember the last evening he didn’t go out for dinner at more »
If you are planning on living forever you may want to consider relocating to a new locale. Where? Well, Dan Buetter, author of “Blue Zones: 9 lessons for living longer from the people who’ve lived the longest”, has done the work for us. He has travelled the world tracking the more »
Herbert and Zelmyra Fisher of North Carolina will have been married 86 years (as of May 2012). They hold the Guinness World Record for the longest marriage of a living couple: Zelmyra is 101 years old and Herbert is 104. Here are some tips they shared with YourBlackWorld.net for a more »
A former Mr. Universe, who is one of the tiniest winners of the body building contest, has turned 100 in India. Manohar Aich, who is 4 foot 11 inches tall, overcame grinding poverty and a stint in prison, to achieve body building glory in 1952. Aich says the secrets to more »
America’s population of centenarians – already the largest in the world – has roughly doubled in the past 20 years to around 72,000 and is projected to at least double again by 2020, perhaps even increase seven-fold, according to the Census Bureau. The Census Bureau estimates there were 71,991 centenarians more »
The number of people living to age 90 and beyond has tripled in the past three decades to almost 2 million and is likely to quadruple by 2050. Read more in the Tuscon Citizen
Dutch researchers has mapped a 115 year old woman’s genome to see if they can unlock the secrets to her long life. The woman referred to only as W115 donated her body to science and was the oldest living person at the time of her death. After her death they more »
According to the BBC and the Guardian newspaper, the number of people in the UK aged 100 or over has reached a record high, according to official figures. The Office for National Statistics said there were 12,640 in 2010, compared with 2,500 in 1980 – a five-fold rise. And life more »
