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A story appeared in the news on August 14, 2022 suggesting that science is one step away from enabling people to become immortal. There are several proponents of this view, but the most prominent is Ray Kurzweil.Don’t worry, there is ZERO science to support this...
This story begins on the 4th of August, 2011 in Chicago. President Obama was on a local television station talking about his 50th birthday – I happened to be watching. The reporter then cut to an interview with a physician who was asked about Obama’s graying hair and...
The Power of Selective Survival Many years ago my 85 year old mother and 90 year old father were at dinner with my wife and I. When the meal was over, the time arrived to decide whether to have dessert. Mom looked down at her pudgy self and declared, as she had every...
In April of this year I attended a conference in London sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation. I’ve been a member of their MacArthur Research Network on an Aging Society for the last twelve years – we hold these meetings often. One of my colleagues in the Network...
In a previous newsletter, I asked the question of why babies are born so young when the cells in their parent’s bodies used to make the babies are most often decades old. The answer was that the germ cells (eggs and sperm) reset biological time to zero at conception....
About 22 years ago scientists conducting research on the aging of mice noticed that some of the animals unexpectedly experienced what looked like rapid aging. Their fur began disappearing; they could no longer move as easily as before; and their eyes filled with...
What stands out, if it isn’t obvious, is the common theme of natural selection that with rare exceptions (humans and whales for example), mammals are quadrupeds. That is, they move about with four appendages on the ground rather than two (feet) like the humans walking...
I write this newsletter with a heavy heart – my closest friend and colleague has been diagnosed with dementia and/or Alzheimer’s disease (AD). My friend (now retired) is partially responsible for having created the lifespan assessment tool we use in our life...
The brief story I’m about to tell you appeared in a longer format as the first chapter of my book entitled The Rise of Generians (2020). If you want to learn how and why Lapetus became a licensed life expectancy provider in the life settlement business – it’s all...
One evening in the year 2000 the final word of my first book The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging (Norton) was written. My wife and I were about to head off to sleep that night. Knowing that I had completed something I was working on for the...