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    Wednesday, November 28, 2007

    Sunday Chat With S. Jay Olshansky at the Immortality Institute

    Researcher S. Jay Olshansky will be the guest at the next Sunday chat hosted by the Immortality Institute:

    I am happy to announce SJ Olshansky will be joining Imminst for the Sunday Night Chat this Sunday December 2nd at 6:30pm CST U.S. If you are not familiar with Professor Olshanksy...you should be. He was researching methods to slow aging while most Imminst members were still in diapers. He has seen all the hype, the successes, and failures. His latest endeavor is the The Longevity Dividend, which proposes to set aside 3 billion (that's billion with a B) dollars a year of NIH funding for the study of aging.

    Chat Room: http://www.imminst.org/chat

    Sun December 2nd
    - 4:30 Pacific
    - 5:30 Mountain
    - 6:30 Central
    - 7:30 Eastern

    You can look back in the archives here for much more on the Longevity Dividend:

    As far as I can see, Olshansky is in the camp of "metabolic re-engineering and slow but solid progress in slowing aging is the way ahead, but it'd be wonderful if things that worked far better were demonstrated to be plausible." Which is hopefully a transitionary stage on the way to "I always thought that the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence was a great idea." We'll see.

    Posted by Reason at November 28, 2007 9:05 PM | TrackBack (0)

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