Themes Might You Live a Great Deal Longer?

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If this collection of provocative speakers proves even partially right, we may all live to a (very) ripe old age.

Futurist Ray Kurzweil foresees body and brain enhancements leading to an extended human tenure on Earth -- and beyond. Surgeon and chemical engineer Alan Russell, meanwhile, asks: "If newts can regenerate a lost limb, why can't we?" And Aubrey de Grey, icon of the life extension movement, gives a challenging talk that may convince you that aging will soon become optional.

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Laura Carstensen: Older people are happier

11:38 Posted: Apr 2012

Views: 229,091 | Comments: 101

Peter Saul: Let’s talk about dying

13:19 Posted: Mar 2012

Views: 293,131 | Comments: 133

Jane Fonda: Life's third act

11:20 Posted: Jan 2012

Views: 1,770,108 | Comments: 244

A.J. Jacobs: How healthy living nearly killed me

08:42 Posted: Jan 2012

Views: 620,866 | Comments: 143

Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives

16:23 Posted: Nov 2011

Views: 413,669 | Comments: 175

Adam Ostrow: After your final status update

05:29 Posted: Aug 2011

Views: 642,386 | Comments: 155

Dave deBronkart: Meet e-Patient Dave

16:31 Posted: Jun 2011

Views: 355,248 | Comments: 178

Daniel Kraft: Medicine's future? There's an app for that

18:21 Posted: Jun 2011

Views: 425,082 | Comments: 95

Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney

17:24 Posted: Mar 2011

Views: 586,730 | Comments: 145

Gary Wolf: The quantified self

05:10 Posted: Sep 2010

Views: 297,898 | Comments: 126

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