A transhumanism book about your future
It seems like every year another country’s lifestyle is touted as the new magic bullet to cure us of obesity, heart disease, and premature death: For an unclogged heart, herd goats and down olive oil like a Mediterranean. Avoid breast cancer and live to 100 by dining on tofu Japanese-style. more »
Dan Buettner is an amazing person. In 1987, he rode his bicycle 15,500 miles from Alaska to Argentina, the first of three world records for endurance bicycling. The last of these became the subject of an Emmy-winning PBS documentary co-produced by Buettner and a book he authored, Afratrek: A Journey by Bicycle through 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 »
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 3 – Mice bred to age too quickly seemed to have sipped from the fountain of youth after scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine injected them with stem cell-like progenitor cells derived from the muscle of young, healthy animals. Instead of becoming infirm and dying more »
One of the health newsletters that I find very credible and useful is the Health & Nutrition Letter from Tufts University. You have to subscribe to it ($24/year) but it is well worth it. Click here for the 291 articles published by the Health & Nutrition Letter that can help you more »
http://vimeo.com/32160447 The Methuselah Generation is a 3D documentary about the science, philosophy, and implications of the coming age of extremely long-lived humans. It profiles the lives and work of scientists who are attempting to create new technologies that can bring about a new age in humanity, and explores their motivations more »
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“‘Genes account for one-fourth to one-third of longevity,’ estimated Howard Friedman, a professor of psychology at the University of California (Riverside) and the coauthor of The Longevity Project, published this year. ‘That leaves well over half not accounted for.’ Most of the rest, for better or worse, is up to more »
