Short Videos by Aubrey de Grey Explaining Longevity Science

"We are on the verge of a revolution in medicine: understanding, treating, and ultimately preventing the causes of degenerative aging. But medical revolutions only happen if we all stand up in support of funding and research. We did it for cancer. We're doing it for Alzheimer's. We can do it for aging - and create an era of longer, healthier lives!"

Required Reading

Activism and Advocacy
Calorie Restriction
The Community, Visualized
Cryonics
Healthy Life Extension Explained
Introductory Articles
Longevity Meme Newsletter
Methuselah Foundation
Mprize for Longevity Research
Stem Cells, Regenerative Medicine
SENS, Negligible Senescence
What is Anti-Aging?

On the Causes of Aging

Accumulating AGEs
The Failing Immune System
Junk in the Lysosome
Mitochondrial Free Radicals
Senescent Cells
Other Causes of Aging

Objections Answered

Boredom
Inequality and Economics
Overpopulation
Stagnation
The Tithonus Error
What About Retirement?

Recent Entries

Thoughts on Engineered Longevity and Selfishness

A Little More On Preventing Decline in Liver Function With Age

The Quest for Clearly Understood Signifiers

The Endocrine System, Longevity, and Methionine

There Are Old People and Fat People, But Few Old Fat People

More Cryonics History From Depressed Metabolism

Attitudes of Aging Researchers To Healthy Life Extension

Three Decades From Now

On Stem Cells, Aging, and Latexin

IGF-1, FOXO and Telomeres at Ouroboros

An Interview With Dave Gobel of the Methuselah Foundation

Tear Down the FDA

Advancing Knowledge of Stem Cells in the Brain

On the Psychology of Longevity Advocacy

Casting an Eye Upon Alcor's Board

The Murky Depths of Parkinson's Disease

How To Tell Whether It's Working

Gregory Stock at Aging 2008

Preparation is Only Helpful When Done Before You Need It

Cancer and Immune System Proficiency

Weblogs of Interest

Accelerating Future
Ageing Research
Anti-Ageing Research
Alcor News
Al Fin Longevity
April's CR Diary
Andart
Biosingularity
CRON Diary
Cryonics Society
Depressed Metabolism
Distributed Republic
Ethical Technology Blog
Existence is Wonderful
Frontier Channel
Future Current
FuturePundit
grailsearch.org
Longevity Science
Marginal Revolution
Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Methuselah Foundation Blog
Mises Economics Blog
Nanodot
Ouroboros
Overcoming Bias
Pimm - Partial immortalization
Responsible Nanotechnology
ScienceBlogs
Sentient Developments
Singularity Institute Blog
The Loom
The Speculist
Tangled Bank
Transumanar

Archives (Monthly)

August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
January 2008
December 2007
November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007
January 2007
December 2006
November 2006
October 2006
September 2006
August 2006
July 2006
June 2006
May 2006
April 2006
March 2006
February 2006
January 2006
December 2005
November 2005
October 2005
September 2005
August 2005
July 2005
June 2005
May 2005
April 2005
March 2005
February 2005
January 2005
December 2004
November 2004
October 2004
September 2004
August 2004
July 2004
June 2004
May 2004
April 2004
March 2004
February 2004
January 2004

Attribution, noncommercial, no derivative works. Play nice.

« Counting Time By Development Cycles | Main | Immortality Institute Chat With Michael Rose, Sunday December 9th »

Monday, December 3, 2007

Short Videos by Aubrey de Grey Explaining Longevity Science

As mentioned over at the Methuselah Foundation blog, the foundation volunteers are back on the cutting floor to produce a series of short videos to explain some of the basics of modern longevity science:

Aubrey de Grey and I will be recording several short videos explaining the science of SENS, the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence, for the benefit of the general public. These videos are intended to serve as an intermediate step between the brief text overviews at the SENS website and the scientific literature. This is a similar niche to that successfully occupied by Ending Aging, but intended to address a slightly different target demographic.
The resulting videos will be hosted at the Foundation website, as well as being uploaded to YouTube and Google Video. We hope they do as wonderful a job of raising awareness that 'SENS makes sense' as the many existing presentations and interviews with Aubrey have done in past years.

You'll be pleased to see a first set of short videos are available for viewing at the Foundation website as a Video FAQ on Life Extension Therapies. Here's the list:

What are 'life extension therapies'?
When did life extension studies first begin?
What is 'rejuvenation therapy'?
What is your master plan for extending the human lifespan?
Is SENS endorsed by mainstream gerontologists?
What is 'tissue rejuvenation'?
What are 'stem cells'?
How might stem cells increase my life span?
How might organ transplants extend my life?
What is 'gene therapy'?
What is 'calorie restriction' CR?
How safe and effective is calorie restriction?
What is 'cryonics'?
What is a 'growth hormone'?
How safe and effective are growth hormones?
How much will life extension therapies cost?
What types of experiments are necessary to test life extension therapies?

A good start - getting in at the basic basics first. This is all being done through VideoJug, a toolset and video aggregator with a focus on instruction and microeducation by the look of it.

Posted by Reason at December 3, 2007 8:47 PM | TrackBack (0)

Post a comment; thoughtful, considered opinions are valued. Please note that comments incorporating ad hominem attacks, advertising and other forms of inappropriate behavior are likely to be deleted.