Reason over at Fight Aging! (a blog I’ve been neglecting lately; I promise to do better) directs us to a passionate new blog called Longevity First, where Jay raises some fundamental questions: Where Is the Rage? Every year, over 50 million people die. Over 30 million of those deaths were not caused by murder, or […]

Now available on Amazon. Read Stephen Gordon’s review.

When I heard this summer that the Immortality Institute was publishing its first book, The Scientific Conquest of Death: Essays on Infinite Lifespans, I asked for an advanced copy to review for the Speculist. I was surprised and honored when Bruce Klein and Reason from FightAging emailed me a working draft. This was a valuable […]

Well, we’re halfway there. The Methuselah Foundation has now raised half a million dollars towards the Methuselah Mouse Prize. The Methuselah Foundation, creators of the Methuselah Mouse Prize, the world’s first scientific prize for research on extending longevity, today announced that it has secured $500,000 in funding commitments and a long term support commitment from […]

I meant to link to this earlier this week. (Kudos to Paul at GeekPress for reminding me.) CHILDHOOD IS A SPECIAL TIME INDEED. If only we could maintain our body functions as they are at age 10, we could expect to live about 5000 years on average. Unfortunately, from age 11 on, it’s all downhill! […]