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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://instapundit.com/archives2/004195.php
... LIVING LONGER: TV doctor Sanjay Gupta has a book out called Chasing Life: New Discoveries in the Search for Immortality to Help You Age Less Today, which looks to offer sensible advice. But it's a long way from the life-extension technologies that I'd like to see. Still, if you take care of yourself now, you're more likely to still be around when ...
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=545
... This is the promise of a researcher at Oxford University who says that adding natural isotopes to your steak or chicken fillet could increase your life expectancy by 10 years. The Society of Chemical Industry explains that "scientists have shown for the first time that food enriched with natural isotopes builds bodily components that are more ...
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http://www.primidi.com/2007/04/17.html#a1809
... This is the promise of a researcher at Oxford University who says that adding natural isotopes to your steak or chicken fillet could increase your life expectancy by 10 years. In "Meat and two neutrons -- the key to a longer life," the Society of Chemical Industry explains that "scientists have shown for the first time that food enriched with ...
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http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/edmonton20070330/#When:22:10:00Z
... Debate between Gregory Stock and Daniel Callahan, which was moderated by Aubrey de Grey, at the Edmonton Aging Symposium which took place March 30-31, 2007. ...
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http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=404
... Following is the text from the recent Psychology Today article titled "The Boy Who Wants to Live Forever… and Other Champions of the Lost Cause" that profiled me and the immortalist movement. *** The Immortalist: When the Challenge is Eternity For a strapping 22-year-old, Michael Anissimov spends an inordinate amount of time thinking about ...
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http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=402
... Few would rush to accept an offer of immortality if each successive year were to bring an ever-increasing burden of broken hips, memory loss, and incontinence. This may help explain why so many people find the thought of extreme life extension unpalatable; the best years are not usually represented by triple digits. Hence, those who actually ...
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http://advancednano.blogspot.com/2007/04/aubrey-de-grey-at-global-investors.html
... Aubrey de Grey, Methuselah Foundation chair, recently presented at the Global Investors Forum. The event was attended by somewhat more than 100 quite senior people from pension fund management, life assurance and wholesalers of long duration investments to institutional clients. Hopefully this will lead to more funds for SENS life extension. ...
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http://www.aleph.se/andart/archives/2007/04/outsmarting_the_great_engineer.html
... Nick Bostrom and I have written a book chapter, The Wisdom of Nature: An Evolutionary Heuristic for Human Enhancement on the application of evolutionary biology to human enhancement. The basic argument is simple: when you propose an enhancement, someone is bound to ask "if that's such a good thing, why haven't nature already given ...
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http://pimm.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/why-aging-is-rather-an-unnatural-process/
... There is an appealing formulation of the argument on why aging should be considered as an unnatural process by Atul Gawande in the current The Way We Age Now report in The New Yorker: "..scientists do not believe that our life spans ...
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http://pimm.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/life-extension-body-hack-andor-life-hack/
... In recent culture, technological life extension is considered to be a form of hacking, as 2Dolphins says a "hacker is someone who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations — someone who makes ...
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http://pimm.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/3-edmonton-aging-symposium-videos/
... Following Reason's links at Fight Aging here is a little conference webcasting from the Edmonton Aging Symposium. You also can read a Conference Report at Ouroboros. Debate between Gregory Stock and Daniel Callahan, which was moderated by Aubrey de Grey Aubrey de ...
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http://rationallongevity.blogspot.com/2007/04/longevity-disability-and-economic_11.html
... Lately I've been trying to parse out some of my thoughts on the economic matters associated with longevity research, the ramifications of healthy life extension, and disability. The way I see it, longevity research is a good thing regardless of how much it costs -- just as sanitation and clean water are good things if people need them, regardless ...
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http://mvajda.blogspot.com/2007/04/aubrey-de-grey-why-we-age-and-how-we.html
... Another interesting talk from TED 2005 ...
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http://swestrup.livejournal.com/903021.html
... Recently there was a conference in Edmonton on Radical Life Extension. These are the folks who are working towards human immortality. Ronald Bailey gave a short (~15 min) but fascinating talk on the economics of immortality. Many pro-mortalists have stated that people living forever would bankrupt society. Ronald gives a good set of arguments that ...
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http://soniaarrison.com/2007/04/12/alliance-for-aging-research-event-in-sf/
... I went to an event hosted by the Alliance for Aging Research today in SF. Speakers included Dr. Karen Bandeen-Roche who discussed how to measure aging with biomarkers; Dr. Leonard Guarente who discussed resveratrol and the sirtuin genes that regulate aging; Dr. Mitchell Harman who talked about what it takes to get research done; and Aubrey de ...
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http://longevity-science.blogspot.com/2007/04/edmonton-aging-symposium.html
... Greetings, Take a look at interesting presentations given at the recent Edmonton Aging Symposium in Canada, which are now publicly available online here: The following talk has caught my particular attention: The Damage of Aging: Present Possibilities and Future Therapies Huber Warner This talk argues that the role of damage accumulation in ...
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http://futuresheet.com/2007/04/07/cnn-spotlights-life-extension/
... Special CNN report spotlights life extension April 7th, 2007 by futuresheet [ storyvert.chasing_life.jpg] Dr. Sanjay Gupta from CNN explores life extension in "Chasing Life," a CNN Special Investigations Unit premiere, April 14 and 15 at 8 p.m. ET. The special is based on Gupta's new book. It sounds like very interesting. Here's an ...
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http://www.singularitysunrise.com/2007/04/transhumanist_c.html
... The latest Futurist Update contained the following conference announcement: The World Transhumanist Association's Transvision 2007 conference will be held in Chicago July 23-26, focusing on longevity, nanomedicine, global warming, sustainable housing, space colonization, future humans, and future civilizations, among many other exciting topics. ...
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http://jkhenry.blogspot.com/2007/04/lessons-from-1000-year-old-man.html
... While watching the talks of brilliant people on http://www.ted.com/tedtalks I came upon a man named Aubrey de Grey. I first heard of Mr. de Grey in an issue of Popular Science magazine about 2 years ago. The bottom line: Aubrey de Grey proposes that humans will and should live to 1000 years and beyond. Hmmm, No thanks. (Gen 6:3) seriously... ...
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http://www.thepriceofrice.com/2007/04/anti-anti-aging-crowd.html
... Thanks go to my friend Louie Savva from Everything is Pointless for pointing me to Aubrey de Grey and Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS). According to the SENS web site: SENS is a detailed plan for curing human aging. SENS is an engineering project, recognising that aging is a medical condition and that medicine is a branch of ...
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http://foreverinyourprime.blogspot.com/2007/04/edmonton-aging-symposium.html
... Audio and video from the most recent Edmonton Aging Symposium is now online at http://www.edmontonagingsymposium.com/index.php?pagename=eas_archive. The content is hosted on Methuselah Foundation hardware, so please do your part to help take the load off the servers by posting these videos to Google Video, YouTube, or other video sharing sites. ...
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http://www.transfigurism.org/news/?p=1580
... William Shatner, Ed Begley Jr., Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey De Grey to ... Business Wire (press release), CA - 14 minutes ago CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–WHO: The World Transhumanist Association (WTA) is hosting its ninth annual TransVision conference, a leading international ...
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http://www.realillusions.info/site/2007/04/16/defeating-the-aging-process/
... Aging - A Disease Worth Fighting? April 16th, 2007 - No Responses After all, who does not want to live forever? This beardo hasn't found the elixir of life, but still there's something in what he says that makes you wonder. Watch the talk of Aubrey de Grey and try to reconsider your seemingly decent chance of becoming an eternal installment in ...
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http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=27203837&blogID=250606855
... Aubrey De Grey's recent video from the Aging Symposium at
Edmonton, CA ...
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http://whatcomesnext.net/wordpress/?p=33
... Indefinite Life Aubrey de Grey is considered by some to be an eccentric. He's actually a brilliant scientist who truly believes that it's possible for humans to develop the medical technology that will allow us to live to 1,000 years. In fact, he believes the first human who will reach 150 years old is alive today, as is the first who will ...
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http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=97701446&blogID=255435060
... This is a story written by some famous scientist dude. i expect most people will find it quite dull and not finish it. The message, however, is powerful nontheless and has genuinly moved me. I implore you therefore to make a good go of reading it and maybe youl find some meaning or purpose in it too. The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant ...
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http://saholarchy.blogspot.com/2007/04/biological-factors.html
... It has been said that when one wants to know his or her potential longevity they need not look much further than where their genes originate. Indeed, looking into the past of one's ancestry may give a glimpse of where one is headed with regard to longevity and durability. However, as one ages through mid-life, the environment may play a much ...
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http://nishyabda.blogspot.com/2007/04/immortality.html
... Immortality is the concept of living physically or mentally for an infinite length of time. In other words we can say that the living organism never dies - either spiritually or physically. From ancient times, across various civilizations, cultures and religions, people have believed in various forms of being immortal spiritually. Off ...
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http://dewaarheid.wordpress.com/2007/04/28/zullen-we-ooit-1000-jaar-kunnen-leven/
... Aubrey de Grey: "The first person to live to 1,000 might be 60 already" Life expectancy is increasing in the developed ...
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http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=108107493&blogID=258839173
... By Dr Aubrey de Grey, University of Cambridge BBC News Dec. 3, 2004 Life expectancy is increasing in the developed world. But Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey believes it will soon extend dramatically to 1,000. Here, he explains why. Ageing is a physical phenomenon happening to our bodies, so at some point in the future, as ...
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http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=181662160&blogID=255408422
... Ray Kurzweil is an inventor, entrepreneur, author, and futurist. Called "the restless genius" by the Wall Street Journal and "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes, Kurzweil's ideas on the future have been touted by his many fans, ranging from Bill Gates to Bill Clinton. MIT's Marvin Minsky writes that "with his brilliant descriptions of the ...
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http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=83634000&blogID=251242824
... I think a cautionary word is needed with regard to the majority of the discussions revolving around General AI, Nanotechnology, and life-extension. In particular, the terms used when discussing the point of convergence for two or more of these topics. Sirs Kurzweil, Smart, Goertzel and others have begun using the term Immortality when ...
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