Diet Asimers - Is There a Way to Get Alsimers?

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23 and me are one of the on line aa gean sequencing companies. Find out more about your body, like how biologically all das and things itout. When it comes backt to sor of age, old question. Would you want to know the day that you die? M, so ye, that's an interesting what would you do? A, if some one told me the wet the dt, exact day i was going to die? E, definitely. I think it would just, a, there's nothing positive coming out of that.

Shermer and Ward discuss: religious immortality • Church of Perpetual Life in Florida • what it means to live forever • why lives have doubled in length the past century • Stein’s Law: things that can’t go on forever won’t • Why do we age and die? • how to live to 100, 1000, 10,000 years • escape velocity to reach immortality • Aubrey de Grey’s program • tech billionaires programs • transhumanists/extropians • diet, exercise, supplements, stem cells, telomeres, and other aging hacks • Ray Kurzweil • cryonics • nanotechnology • brain preservation • mind uploading and digital immortality • Ernest Becker and Terror Management Theory

Peter Ward is a British business and technology reporter whose reporting has taken him across the globe. Reporting from Dubai, he covered the energy sector in the Middle East before earning a degree in business journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. His writing has appeared in Wired, The Atlantic, The Economist, GQ, BBC Science Focus, and Newsweek.