It's also possible that seasonality has more to do with UV intensity than it does air temperature.
]]>I think the question of more or less radical life/healthspan extension in our lifetimes comes down to whether there are any low-hanging fruits to pick in already long-lived organisms. If some combination of senolytics, telomere extension, muscle mass increase via myostatin inhibition, assorted other gene hacks via CRISPR or whatever, gets people an additional 15-20 years of healthy life, then the first person to live to 500 might be alive today -- and I see no reason why such procedures should remain prohibitively expensive (and I bet George Church would agree with that).If we get nowhere without full-blown, absolutely comprehensive SENS-type damage repair, then I suspect people alive now are screwed, wealthy or not.
It doesn't matter how execrable are the views of the privileged Silicon Valley douchebags leading the cheers. Biology doesn't care.
]]>"... neurosurgery will get more dangerous as multiple antibiotic resistant bacteria become the norm ..."
Are antibiotics necessary when you're unpacking a mesh in a brain that's been threaded in there, starting in the femoral artery?
]]>Interested in getting my feet wet with some baby VR, but I've a sneaking suspicion these phones are going to be $1,500.
]]>Pathological out-group phobia seems to me an underlying feature of right-wing orientations -- and if you want to become a billionaire, I suspect it helps to suffer from some sort of antisocial personality disorder.
]]>Oh, look at that -- Scalzi and Naam and other interesting folks. I think I can swing a day pass.
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