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| Gene Breakthrough: Humans May Stay Young For 400 Years
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| posted on Wednesday, October 17, 2007
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"In principle, if you understand the mechanisms of keeping things
repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely," says Cynthia
Kenyon, biochemist at the University of California at San Francisco. In
her lab she has increased the life span of tiny worms called
Caenorhabditis elegans up to six times their normal lifespan by
suppressing a single gene. This regulator gene, named daf-2, in
combination with other genes, appears to control an entire cluster of
genes that direct aging not only in worms, but in similar genetic
pathways in flies, mice and, possibly humans. This is the equivalent of
people living for 400 years, and the good news is that the worms stay
young for most of their extended lifespans.
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| The Plan For Eternal Life (Includes Video-Taped Interviews)
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| posted on Wednesday, October 17, 2007
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This is the opening session of the ninth annual meeting of the World
Transhumanist Association (WTA)
in Chicago. Sandberg and his fellow transhumanists plan to bypass death
by using technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), genetic
engineering and nanotechnology to radically accelerate human evolution,
eventually merging people with machines to make us immortal. This may
not be possible yet, the transhumanists reason, but as long as they
live long enough -- a few decades perhaps -- the technology will surely
catch up.
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| Ragnar: You're Not Demented, Just Dehydrated
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| posted on Friday, August 03, 2007
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A mere two percent drop in hydration will make your short-term memory
so fuzzy that you’ll be unable to remember your friends’ names, have
trouble doing basic math, and forget where you put your keys. Since
seventy-five percent of Americans are chronically dehydrated, it’s no
wonder people are losing their minds. Yet, the solution is so simple: cool, clean water. Drink eight to ten
eight-ounce glasses a day of pure distilled water, and you’ll be amazed
at how many ailments disappear. Don’t worry; you’re not demented --
just dehydrated!
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| Andrew Cohen Interviews Peter Ragnar (From 2005)
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| posted on Friday, August 03, 2007
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The amazing Peter Ragnar is a modern-day shaman, Taoist wizard, natural
life scientist, and self-master par excellence. He lives in the
Tennessee mountains with his wife, and he claims to be a “senior
citizen” but refuses to give away his age because he “doesn't believe
in it.” He does strenuous two-hour strength-training workouts seven
days a week and performs record-breaking feats. He's been a martial
arts practitioner for over fifty years, and he has developed his own
version of Taoist energy practice called “Magnetic Qi Gong,” which he
claims is the key to immortality. He has healing powers and is renowned
for his clairvoyant and telepathic abilities. He lives on a strict diet
of raw foods and juices and has spent a lifetime studying the
relationship between the body and the mind at all levels. And his most
remarkable attainment is his profound awakening to the energetic
dimension, or “bio-electric-magnetic” field, of life. While this
dimension of reality and experience is one that many have heard of,
it's a world that Peter actually lives in.
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| What's Happening At TED
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| posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2007
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In recent years, the TED conference
has gained a reputation for blissfully big ideas buoyed by unrelenting
optimism. So few conference goers were prepared for venture capitalist
John Doerr to choke up with emotion as he kicked off the second day of
talks on Mar. 9.
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| Ray Kurzweil: Reinventing Humanity
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| posted on Tuesday, February 07, 2006
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Ray Kurzweil sees a radical evolution of the human species in the next
40 years. The merger of man and machine, coupled with the sudden
explosion in machine intelligence and rapid innovation in gene research
and nanotechnology, will result in a world where there is no
distinction between the biological and the mechanical, or between
physical and virtual reality.
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| Ray Kurzweil's Plan for Cheating Death
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| posted on Tuesday, February 07, 2006
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A cure for aging may be found in the next fifty years. The trick now is
to live long enough to be there when it happens. In his two new books,
Ray Kurzweil has painted a clear picture of the future and provided a
blueprint for how to get there.
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| Ray Kurzweil's Dangerous Idea
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| posted on Friday, January 20, 2006
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My dangerous idea is the near-term inevitability of radical life
extension and expansion. The idea is dangerous, however, only when
contemplated from current linear perspectives.
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| 60 Minutes: The Quest For Immortality
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| posted on Sunday, January 08, 2006
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Though we live longer and healthier lives than our grandparents, 100 is
more or less the outer limit because, catastrophic disease aside, we
just plain wear out. But 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer talked
to one scientist who says that’s old-fashioned thinking, that sometime
in the next 20 to 30 years or so we’ll be able to recondition ourselves
for the first steps towards immortality.
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