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Michael Yamashita's Blog Scan

Herein lies the latest installment of Michael's view of the blogosphere:

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/13/life_extension_resea.html
... Mark Frauenfelder: Attila Csordas says: "Aubrey de Grey is the man, who first made serious, scientifically conceptualized life extension speech acceptable within scholarly circles. Here are his answers to 6 life extension questions concerning moderate and maximum life extension technologies and blogs." ...
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http://www.blog.speculist.com/archives/001055.html
... Fight Aging! links and passes on some important questions to ponder about life extension. Here are the questions plus my quick answers: What is the story of your life extension commitment? I've been blogging on the subject for three years. I actively support organizations that are working on life extension (MPrize) as well as those that support ...
Profile page: http://www.blog.speculist.com/
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http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=252
... Most of the respondents only discussed advances they hope will happen in their own scientific field. But wait, you can't talk about the future, because it hasn't happened yet, right? Looking any further than five years into the future must mean you are childish, and have your head in the clouds. Well, the point of this section in New Scientist ...
Profile page: http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/
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http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2006/11/transvision-2007-announced.html
... The World Transhumanist Association's annual TransVision conference will be held in Chicago next summer. The dates have been announced as July 26 to July 28. Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Grey will be the keynote speakers. I will be there and I hope you will be too. Last year's TransVision was held in Helsinki, Finland, and the year before in ...
Profile page: http://www.blogger.com/profile/1239148
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http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/10/30/cr-nyt/
... Calorie restriction and me October 30th, 2006 A few months ago reporter Michael Mason contacted me for a story about calorie restriction via my writeup of the first day of CR IV (I still have notes from the other two days and will write them up in the fullness of time). The story appears in tomorrow's New York Times, now online, as One for the ...
Profile page: http://gondwanaland.com/ml/
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http://www.camlawblog.com/-558-antiaging-medicine-and-advice-from-antiaging-medicine-man.html
... Anti-aging medicine researcher Aubrey de Grey discusses radical life extension therapies in a blog about becoming immortal. "SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence, my own anti-aging plan) is a huge plan incorporating many different therapies to be applied simultaneously to people, thereby rejuvenating all organs at the cellular ...
Profile page: http://www.camlawblog.com/cat-about-michael.html
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http://www.onetribe.me.uk/wordpress/?p=67
... Dirk records a talk by Aubrey de Grey, leader of the SENS Project (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) which is aimed at preventing age-related physical and cognitive decline. Doctor De Grey is also co-founder of the Methusalah Mouse Prize, a prize designed to accelerate research into effective life extension interventions by ...
Profile page: http://www.onetribe.me.uk/
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http://pimm.wordpress.com/2006/11/09/blogterview-with-aubrey-de-grey-life-extension-stories/
... Aubrey de Grey is the man, who first made serious, scientifically conceptualized life extension speech acceptable within scholarly circles through good timing, well-done strategy and with a little bit of luck. The rest is ... (I've slightly modified the original question 4 and separated questions concerning the probable technologies of moderate and ...
Profile page: http://pimm.wordpress.com/about/
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http://pimm.wordpress.com/2006/11/15/kevin-dewalts-answers-technology-professional-lifestyle-life-extensionist/
... Kevin Dewalt is an American technology professional, presently working at a VC. Kevin is a strong life extension supporter. We've met online at Baris Karadogan's blog. I specially liked his "happy argument" for maximum life extension on the psychological level, see answer 3. 1. What is the story of your life extension commitment? When I was 23 ...
Profile page: http://pimm.wordpress.com/about/
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http://pimm.wordpress.com/2006/11/16/pimm-got-boingboinged/
... [ aubreyboinged]Pimmblog, or more exactly the Aubrey de Grey blogterview got BoingBoinged this Monday. Despite the rumors, there was not any traffic overload, no tens of thousands visitors, no server dying, not any problems of sudden popularity. It was good, but now it's over, back to the niche audience. In the meantime I am preparing for the ...
Profile page: http://pimm.wordpress.com/about/
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http://anti-ageing.us/2006/11/mitosens.html
... The goal of MitoSENS is to obviate mtDNA mutations by expressing the mtDNA genes from the nucleus Mitochondria are a component of cells that perform cellular respiration. That is to say, they react oxygen with nutrients from our food to produce water, carbon dioxide, and useable energy (in the form of ATP). A side effect of this process is the ...
Profile page: http://anti-ageing.us/
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http://anti-ageing.us/2006/10/biodesign-institute-at-arizona-state.html
... The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University has awarded biochemist John Schloendorn a $30,000 scholarship that will enable him to pursue anti-aging research as a Ph.D. student in the School of Life Sciences. Schloendorn is part of the institute's inaugural doctoral graduate assistantship class of 2006. Schloendorn's pioneering work ...
Profile page: http://anti-ageing.us/
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http://djsunkid.livejournal.com/57608.html
...Aubrey de Grey comes across as a totally crazy guy, but simply the fact that he's been invited to speak at TED makes me wonder. His main point is that we'll probably be able to retard aging enough that the youth of today will likely be able to live to 1000 years or longer. Great talk by a total wackjob looking guy who I suspect is actually totally brilliant...
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http://prog.livejournal.com/661225.html
... I need a life-extension icon. I'll use Shatner for now because he's a rather spritely 75-year-old, isn't he. (Yes, he's only 50 in this picture, but do you deny that he's still got it?) From BoingBoing, some Aubrey de Grey stuff: a brief text interview, where he interestingly pooh-poohs the effectiveness of CR in humans, and the full video of a ...
Profile page: http://prog.livejournal.com/profile
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http://www.alexreid.ca/2006/10-25/live-for-a-thousand-years/
... Live for a thousand years? October 25th, 2006 The interview above is between CBC news correspondent Portia Clark and British scientist Aubrey de Grey, Ph.D. who is with the department of Genetics at Cambridge University, after a lecture at the University of Alberta ...
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http://matts-cr.blogspot.com/2006/10/hello.html
... My name is Matthew, and I will be sharing my experience with CR and err stuff... I won't always be posting things about my CR, but will talk about other things which interest me too! First of all I should introduce myself! I live in the united kingdom in a country called Wales. I live like right by the capital city, so away from the poor areas ...
Profile page: http://www.blogger.com/profile/15194550
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http://sustainingfuture.blogspot.com/2006/11/is-defeating-aging-only-dream.html
... Last year, Technology Review announced a $20,000 prize for any molecular biologist who could demonstrate that biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey's "Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence1" (SENS) [snip] was "so wrong that it was unworthy of learned debate." The purpose of the challenge was to determine whether de Grey's proposals were ...
Profile page: http://www.blogger.com/profile/4107865
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http://bayblab.blogspot.com/2006/11/aubrey-de-grey.html
... Wise like Gandalf the Grey is Aubrey de Grey. Maybe not. Make up your own mind as you check out his talk at TEDtalks. I haven't checked it out yet, lemme know if he's under the influence of Sauron. Found on www.boingboing.net. ...
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http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=4704704&blogID=193225636
... Development Officer Wanted --> title --> The Methuselah Foundation ( www.mprize.org ) seeks a singularly outstanding Development Officer to secure major donations from the entrepreneurial, technology and venture capital communities in the Bay Area. The mission of the Foundation is to devise new approaches to combating and eventually reversing ...
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http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=28723615&blogID=191069810
... SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) Dr. Aubrey de Grey proposed seven strategies for the "seven deadly things": 1. Cell Loss:Some of the cells in our bodies cannot be replaced, or can only be replaced very slowly. Cell loss can be repaired (reversed) just by suitable exercise in the case of muscle. For other ...
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http://lewythink.blogspot.com/2006/11/this-blog-article-posted-on-somewhere.html
... This blog article posted on somewhere brought my attention again to Aubrey de Grey's: SENS (anti-aging push: methuselah mouse project and generally trying to make public oppinion more optimistic about living more!) ...
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