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Michael Yamashita's Blog Scan

Once again, Michael Yamashita provides us with the results of an eye cast upon the blogosphere:

http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2007/04/support_freedom.html
... Support freedom, kill death. The Edmonton Aging Symposium was held at the University of Alberta last weekend, and a number of important anti-aging scientists attended, such as Aubrey de Grey and Gregory Stock. The Symposium discussed the prospect of ...
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http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?title=hold_the_neutrons&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
... The English have never been noted for their cuisine. Ask Alexander Litvinenko's family. But now you have something else to worry about besides Mad Cow, polonium-210 and a certain lingering blandness. Check out this press release: Meat and two neutrons -- the key to a longer life Long-life isotopes of a different variety Indulging in an ...
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http://advancednano.blogspot.com/2007/03/new-life-extension-possibility-and-stem.html
... A method of using isotopes to make bonds in the body more resistant to free radical damage could lengthen human lives by 10% or about 10 years. It does not reverse free radical damage, so it would be less helpful to older people. A team led by Mikhail Shchepinov, formerly of Oxford University, fed nematode worms nutrients reinforced with natural ...
Profile page: http://www2.blogger.com/profile/07541279438184352860
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http://pimm.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/edmonton-aging-life-extension-technologies-symposium-starts-march-30-31/
... Edmonton Aging (Life Extension Technologies) Symposium starts, March 30-31. Posted by attilachordash on March 30th, 2007 The Edmonton Aging Symposium starts today. Based on the program and speakers you can expect hot debates: Huber Warner, Aubrey de Grey, Irina Conboy, Amit Patel, Judith Campisi. I hope that the discussions will be hot, ...
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http://thebewilderness.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/04/support_freedom.html
... The Edmonton Aging Symposium was held at the University of Alberta last weekend, and a number of important anti-aging scientists attended , such as Aubrey de Grey and Gregory Stock. The Symposium discussed the prospect of developing and implementing many anti-aging technologies, with the Methuselah Foundation and the Supercentenarian Research ...
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http://www.everythingispointless.com/2007/04/nihlism-transhumanism-hedonism.html
... A couple of months ago I was sent a rather cryptic email suggesting that I check out the work of Aubrey de Grey, who (according to his Wikipedia page) is: a controversial biomedical gerontologist who lives in the city of Cambridge, UK. He is working to expedite the development of a cure for human ageing, a medical goal he refers to as engineered ...
Profile page: http://www.blogger.com/profile/15282045026892204345
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http://www.stevens.edu/csw/cgi-bin/blogs/csw/?p=16
... The science writer Steve Hall has thought as long and hard about the pros and cons of technological human enhancement as anyone I know. His last two books, Merchants of Immortality and Size Matters, consider life extension and height extension, respectively, with great sophistication and clarity. The latter book is particularly poignant, because ...
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http://infidel753.blogspot.com/2007/04/genetics-and-life-extension.html
... This seems like a worthwhile idea. Since some animals live an unusually long time -- and therefore must age unusually slowly -- let's analyze the genes of those species and find out how they do it. ...
Profile page: http://www.blogger.com/profile/10965786814334886696
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http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=190656&blogID=247668687
... The Singularity is about breaking through the millennia-enduring glass ceiling of Homo sapiens cognitive capacity. There are people that can bench press 500 lbs, and people that can barely manage 100. There are atheletes that can run a five-minute mile, and there are those that can barely puff through a mile in under ten minutes. There are ...
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http://www.phicons.com/index.php/2007/03/20/ted-talks-av-podcasts-life-inspiration/
... Each year, TED hosts some of the world's most fascinating people: Trusted voices and convention-breaking mavericks, icons and geniuses. With sponsorship assured TED is putting up a talk a week in video, audio and streaming formats. I am busy filling the miniSD on my mobile right now. Below is a quick list of the talks available at TED to ...
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http://leightoncooke.blogspot.com/2007/03/wanna-celebrate-your-1000th-birthday.html
.. ...Well according to Aubrey de Grey it's just an engineering problem! TED blog has all the details and Aubrey has the beard...
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http://futuresheet.com/2007/03/31/scientists-try-to-answer-age-old-query-should-people-live-longer/
... Scientists try to answer: Should people live longer? March 31st, 2007 by futuresheet Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) Journal reports that dozens of academics are gathering at the University of Alberta for a two-day aging symposium to discuss whether we can significantly extend lifespans and whether we should. "If we all live to be 150, the hospitals ...
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http://www.novamente.net/bruce/index.php/?p=31
... Bryan Appleyard's new book, How to Live Forever or Die Trying, includes a chapter (available online) about ImmInst's Atlanta Conference, including commentary about Bruce Klein(me!), Ben Goertzel, Novamente and a number of other life extension pioneers, such as Susan Fonseca-Klein, Aubrey de Grey, Martine Rothblatt, James Hughes, Max More and ...
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http://dao.complexitystudies.org/2007/03/22/ted2007/
... TED2007 March 22nd, 2007 by guenther I came upon TED a year ago and have since watched nearly all the videos: they are mind-expanding, inspiring, fascinating - they restore faith in the human race and give hope that we'll make it yet (yes, these talks evoke this all! - watch some of them to know what I mean). I especially liked Sir Ken ...
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http://atokena.livejournal.com/5559.html
... For a brief introduction into the progress of gerontology and the mounds that can be achieved through the coming scientific methods check out this short presentation by Dr. Aubrey de Grey. http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=3847943059984264388&q=TED+Conference ...
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http://cyberend.com/1stparagraph/2007/03/24/what-about-not-dying-at-all/
... Aubrey de Grey, British biogerontologist and founder of SENS, controversially claims to have created a roadmap to defeat biological aging. In this talk, he argues that aging - like other diseases - can be cured, and that humans can live for centuries, if only we approach the aging process as "an engineering problem." [Watch the [...] ...
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http://dakura-deoman.livejournal.com/68408.html
... Traditionally, medical science involves itself with restoring a person to a state of good health, or as close to that as possible. Recent discoveries and advancements, however, have opened up prospects of all kinds of enhancements designed to improve a human's natural, basic capabilities and make them 'better then well'. In general, Human ...
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http://rejuv.blogspot.com/2007/04/rejuvenation-engineering.html
... Rejuvenation Engineering is the Second Life (SL) virtual Reality (VR) simulation of a real life (RL) problem, Reversing Aging, and applying engineering/science toward it's solution. Here I am in SL watching a 2 minute slide presentation on Dr. Aubrey de Grey of Cambridge University, the Biomedical Gerontology theorist whose Strategies for ...
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http://rejuv.blogspot.com/2007/04/7-deadly-things.html
... Dr. Aubrey de Grey states that there are 7 DeadlyThings which are killing us as we age. They are damage inside and outside of our cells which must be removed if we are to survive. ...
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http://www.thepriceofrice.com/2007/04/building-bridges-to-forever.html
... Please read the following quotation: Most of my Baby Boomer contemporaries are completely oblivious of this perspective. They just assume that aging is part of the cycle of human life, and at 65 or 70 you start slowing down. Then at eighty you're dead. So they're getting ready to retire, and are really unaware of this perspective that things are ...
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http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=156836259&blogID=249477555
... The following "reflections", published in the book The Singularity is Near, "articulate" the "personal philosophy" of Ray Kurzweil, and are worth recapitulating here: We have the means right now to live long enough to live forever. Existing knowledge can be aggressively applied to dramatically slow down aging processes so we can still be in ...
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