James Taranto attempts a few laughs at Aubrey de Grey’s expense in today’s Best of the Web Today (last item): All well and good, but when will our leaders act to stop global aging? Unlike warming, aging goes in only one direction: Tomorrow may be cooler than today, but it’s a sure bet you’ll be […]
I gave up cigars years ago, and I’m resigned to spending the rest of my life eating only a small fraction of the number of fancy desserts that I feel entitled to. So it is with a certain amount of relish that I learn that… Coffee ‘may reverse Alzheimer’s’ Drinking five cups of coffee a […]
I started writing a comment in the thread on my Better All the Time piece from Friday when I realized that, length-wise, it was growing into a post of its own. So here we go. Leo wrote: Until humans know that happiness results from virtuous behavior and that such knowledge informs and directs our own […]
Well, as Harvey observes in the comments to my March on Washington post, it looks like my suggestion that we raise the retirement age has not been greeted with too much enthusiasm. I can’t blame people for not being excited about the idea of a delayed retirement. However, I did think people would have more […]
For a number of reasons that we’ve gone over and over, we don’t talk about politics at The Speculist. But no politics and no religion is Rule 2. Rule 1 is that we can talk about whatever we want. So with that in mid, let me make the odd foray into politics and suggest that […]
For a number of reasons that we’ve gone over and over, we don’t talk about politics at The Speculist. But no politics and no religion is Rule 2. Rule 1 is that we can talk about whatever we want. So with that in mid, let me make the odd foray into politics and suggest that […]
Being human, we are always trying to find a way to improve our condition. We’re never satisfied with the status quo. One very important metric for improvement is life span. I found the above graph in a paper by Marvin Minsky. It shows that only about 20% of people lived to see age 45 in […]
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But, hey, it might be worth a shot. First, let me say that I have nothing but admiration for those who have adopted a restricted calorie diet in the hopes of realizing some of the health and life extension benefits that have been demonstrated repeatedly in the lab with animals (mostly mice) following similar diets. […]
From KurzweilAI.net: Vitamins ‘may shorten your life’ BBC News, April 16, 2008 Copenhagen University research has suggested that certain vitamin supplements do not extend life and could even lead to a premature death. A review of 67 studies with trials involving 233,000 people found “no convincing evidence” that antioxidant supplements cut the risk of dying,” […]