Entries Tagged as 'aging'

Friday, August 7th, 2009

A sobering thought

I generally see my parents once or twice a year–once during the spring or summer, and once during the winter holidays. My parents are in their late 50′s, let’s say, age 58. Therefore, assuming they live to be 78, I will see them about 40 more times before they die.

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Fertility vs. Life Expectancy at birth

This is why I’m not worried about overpopulation due to life extension technology. Via Alex Lightman.

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

The wedding of Katie Kirkpatrick

The story of Katie Kirkpatrick is simultaneously one of the sweetest and saddest I’ve ever read. This is why we need cryonics now.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Aging’s a bitch

I hate it when people go on about the “beauty” of old age. Aging is decay. Yeah, you might find beauty in old age, just as you might find beauty in the mold patterns of an abandoned building. But it’s nothing to be celebrated. If 19 year-olds woke up one morning in the bodies of [...]

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

The Threat of Loneliness

A talk with John Cacioppo Loneliness also seems to impair people’s self-control, including their ability to stick with a task. In one extraordinary test – in which subjects were asked to taste as many cookies as necessary to rate their flavor – those who were told no one wanted to work with them ate twice [...]

Friday, December 26th, 2008

Exceptional memories

Nature Neuroscience 6, 90 – 95 (2002) Published online: 16 December 2002; | doi:10.1038/nn988 Routes to remembering: the brains behind superior memory Eleanor A. Maguire1, Elizabeth R. Valentine2, John M. Wilding2 & Narinder Kapur3 1 Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, University College London, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK 2 Department [...]

Monday, November 24th, 2008

One model, sixty years

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Your life as 936 dots

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Exploring Life Extension

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Digg the Understanding Aging conference!

From the desk of Susan Fonseca-Klein, of the Methusaleh Foundation: “…We have great news! Wired just released an article about the Methuselah Foundation and Aging 2008. http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2008/06/methuselah We would love to get your help ensuring that a lot of people see the article today and learn about this effort. Here’s what we can all do: [...]