Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Forever Young - Immortality
Okay, I know, this has been out a while. The idea that the new generation will live forever or have a very extended lifespan isn't new.
However, lately, there have been a few new additions to our family. I look at the babies/kids and think to myself - will they live forever? I hope they do. And I also hope to be able to live forever with them, because according to Aubrey de Grey, a Cambridge University researcher who heads the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) project and runs the Methuselah Mouse prize for breakthroughs in extended aging in mice, we might be able to do just that. Here's an interview with him from Live Science - 11 Apr 2005
Hang in There: The 25-Year Wait for Immortality
On the same subject, it seems that vampires and those who believe that eating youngsters can make them immortal or keep them young, may have some truth in them after all. New research shows how young blood helps heal tissue.
From Live Science - 16 Feb 2005
Infusion of Young Blood Revives Old Muscles
And finally, if you want to know how to live forever, or at least until science can help you with your immortality goals, Ray Kurzweil wrote this: Fantastic Voyage : Live Long Enough to Live Forever
(or from Amazon.ca Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever
). Apparently he pops something like 250 pills supplements a day and drinks green tea in his health regimen, hoping to live long enough until the awaited break thorough in science.
From Live Science - 14 Feb 2005
Ray Kurzweil Aims to Live Forever
Categories: science, immortality
However, lately, there have been a few new additions to our family. I look at the babies/kids and think to myself - will they live forever? I hope they do. And I also hope to be able to live forever with them, because according to Aubrey de Grey, a Cambridge University researcher who heads the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) project and runs the Methuselah Mouse prize for breakthroughs in extended aging in mice, we might be able to do just that. Here's an interview with him from Live Science - 11 Apr 2005
Hang in There: The 25-Year Wait for Immortality
On the same subject, it seems that vampires and those who believe that eating youngsters can make them immortal or keep them young, may have some truth in them after all. New research shows how young blood helps heal tissue.
From Live Science - 16 Feb 2005
Infusion of Young Blood Revives Old Muscles
And finally, if you want to know how to live forever, or at least until science can help you with your immortality goals, Ray Kurzweil wrote this: Fantastic Voyage : Live Long Enough to Live Forever
(or from Amazon.ca Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever). Apparently he pops something like 250 pills supplements a day and drinks green tea in his health regimen, hoping to live long enough until the awaited break thorough in science.From Live Science - 14 Feb 2005
Ray Kurzweil Aims to Live Forever
Categories: science, immortality
