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

http://instapundit.com/archives2/004798.php
... HERE'S SOME POTENTIAL GOOD NEWS on the longevity front: Studies have shown that severe calorie restriction markedly extends lifespan in mice and many other species - but the reasons for this remained elusive. But now US research on nematode worms, published in Nature, has uncovered a gene linked to this unusual effect. In the future, the find ...
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http://drsanity.blogspot.com/2007/05/science-is-under-attack-but-from-whom.html
... Yuval Levin has a fascinating post up at The Corner that I found particularly thought provoking. It is about Science and the left: ...the left actually has a much more complicated set of problems with science that are explored far more rarely than those of the right. Scientific advance, for instance, is the great engine behind capitalism, and is ...
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http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/05/18/give-me-immortality-or-give-me-death/
... [ Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death!] According to transhumanist Michael Anissimov, there's an even chance that we're looking at immortality or existential destruction in the next 20-40 years. Anissimov is only 23-years-old but he's already become an important figure in the transhumanist movement. While still in high school, he became founder ...
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http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/004218.html
... Aubrey de Grey: We Should View Aging As Curable Reason at Longevity Meme points to a mew paper by biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey where Aubrey argues that biogerontology's ultimate goal should be the defeat of processes which cause aging. We should view aging as ultimately curable just as cancer researchers view cancer as ultimately curable. ...
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http://bioethicsnews.com/2007/05/10/pre-order-ieet-fellow-aubrey-de-grey's-ending-aging/
... Aubrey's meteoric rise to international prominence as an advocate for longevity research makes his forthcoming publication with co-author Michael Rae, Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Biotechnologies That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime, extremely important. (Ethical Technology Blog) ...
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http://pimm.wordpress.com/2007/05/09/content-of-ending-aging-aubrey-de-greys-coming-life-extension-book/
... You can now pre-order Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Biotechnologies That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime at Amazon written by Aubrey de Grey and Michael Rae which is the most detailed, although popular exposition of the SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) plan to defeat aging. Aubrey was kind enough to mail me the ...
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http://betterhumans.com/blogs/anne/archive/2007/05/20/trends-in-attitudes-toward-life-death-and-progress.aspx
... That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees (out of a --Those dying generations -- at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unageing intellect. From, ...
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http://futuresheet.com/2007/05/03/the-smartest-or-the-nuttiest-futurist-on-earth/
... The smartest (or the nuttiest) futurist on Earth May 3rd, 2007 by futuresheet. If you went around saying that in a couple of decades we'll have cell-sized, brain-enhancing robots circulating through our bloodstream or that we'll be able to upload a person's consciousness into a computer, people would probably question your ...
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http://rationallongevity.blogspot.com/2007/05/trends-in-attitudes-toward-life-death_16.html
... Part 1 * Part 2 * Part 3 * It's A Circle Of Life (Death)? Of the poll items chosen for the sake of revealing respondents' primary philosophical attitude toward death (items 1, 2, and 3), Item 1 was the second most frequently chosen. Figure 2 shows the distribution of how other poll items were selected among those respondents of the ...
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http://kallinibrothers.com/index.php?/weblog/curing_death/
... I'm on board. Reason at Longevity Meme points to a mew paper by biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey where Aubrey argues that biogerontology's ultimate goal should be the defeat of processes which cause aging. We should view aging as ultimately curable just as cancer researchers view cancer as ultimately curable. An interesting position paper ...
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http://ginasmith.typepad.com/gina_on_gina/2007/05/aubrey_de_grey_.html
... No matter where you stand on it, you've got to admit that AI and Singularity work is interesting. Check out this link. Thanks to Bruce Klein for the heads up. ...
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http://transsurvivalist.blogspot.com/2007/05/ray-kurzweil-and-nikola-tesla-syndrome.html
... Fortune magazine (May 2) has an article about Ray Kurzweil titled "The smartest (or the nuttiest) futurist on Earth." Apparently Kurzweil has two films about his ideas in the works, one a straightforward documentary, the other a kind of fictional portrayal like The Day After Tomorrow, an embarrassingly bad and error-packed film to use as a model, ...
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http://matts-cr.blogspot.com/2007/05/ending-aging.html
... Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Biotechnologies That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime can be pre ordered on amazon now! Authors include Aubrey De Grey and Michael Rae. If anyone is interested in the science and technologies that will enable us to finally deal with aging, then pick up this book. I'm ordering my copy when I get home from ...
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http://blog.m1k3y.com/?p=1061
.. WHO Unveils Life Expectancy Statistics A boy born in San Marino, a tiny republic surrounded by Italy, will likely live to age 80, the world's longest male life expectancy, but newborn girls in Japan and 30 other countries have ...
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http://www.theflowingofthedao.com/wordpress/?p=2049
... Aubrey de Grey's New Book! Dr. de Grey's new book Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Biotechnologies That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime has been listed on Amazon. Thanks to http://www.kurzweilai.net for the heads-up.
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http://www.mayyoubeforeveryoung.com/index.php/2007/05/10/sens-book-on-its-way/
... SENS book on its way If SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) is your thing, you're going to want the up-coming book from Aubrey de Grey and Michael Rae called Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Biotechnologies That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime (Amazon). Here's how Reason described it: Aimed squarely at folk who want ...
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http://neopaleo.typepad.com/the_neopaleo_gourmet/2007/05/50_is_the_new_4.html
... Just take Julio Franco, still playing major league ball at 48 -- and now the oldest major leaguer to ever hit a home run. Watch Aubrey de Grey on why aging can be defeated: "In a shocking challenge to conventional wisdom, Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that the process of aging is merely a disease -- and a ...
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http://hellofrom.blogspot.com/2007/05/singularity-institute-for-artificial.html
... "Video from the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. This is the only organization in the world devoted to making sure that advanced AI, once developed, doesn't wipe out humanity. Video includes PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey."DISCLAIMER: I make regular charitable contributions to the Singularity ...
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http://bestoftheday.net/?p=81
... SENS is a scientific program initiated by Aubrey de Grey, which aims to research and develop engineering-like strategies for the life extension in individuals. De Grey has also co-founded with David Gobel the The Methuselah Foundation which offers the Methuselah Mouse Prize a prize designed to accelerate research into effective life extension ...
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http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=101161716&blogID=260450460
... By NICHOLAS WADE Scientists have identified a gene that makes roundworms live longer when they eat less, a finding they hope could lead to drugs that promote human longevity, but without the pain of strict dieting. Roundworms are excellent subjects for longevity ...
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http://henryallenthewarhammer.blogspot.com/2007/05/other.html
...But the blood is still the life. Chart the DNA, or Draw the Knife. The blade is made of glass and steel, the Monitor reveals the Code that Explodes the mythology or mere mortality. Helpless is not Knowing, Know the stain that strains fiction from truth.
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http://arcadiafinancial.biz/blog/2007/05/21/give-me-immortality-or-give-me-death/
... By RU Sirius May 18th, 2007 According to transhumanist Michael Anissimov, there's an even chance that we're looking at immortality or existential destruction in the next 20-40 years. Anissimov is only 23-years-old but he's already become an important figure in the transhumanist movement. While still in high school, he became founder and director ...
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