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New treatments show promise in prolonging human life

October 9, 2014

Drugs to slow aging already exist in the form of relatively cheap medicines that have been used for other purposes for years.

There is evidence that some widely used drugs can prolong lifespan for well people – and insiders have started taking them off-label. Millions of people are taking anti-aging drugs every day – they just don’t know it. Drugs to slow aging sound futuristic but they already exist in the form of relatively cheap medicines that have been used for other purposes for decades.

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Seven Reasons Why the Value of Human Life is Increasing Exponentially

September 15, 2014

Futurist Thomas Frey: What’s the value of a human life?

For some of you this is a very disconcerting question because it attempts to put a dollar value on a person, something we value in far different ways.

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Analysis, Business, Health & Fitness, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News

Human Longevity wants to make 100 the new 60 and have healthier people living longer

July 25, 2014

Human Longevity doesn’t aim to extend human life so much as to help keep people healthy as they get older.

Dr. Robert Hariri, who once worked directing cell therapy operations at Celgene, a biopharmaceutical company is teaming up with Craig Venter, and engineer Dr. Peter Diamandis, chairman of the X Prize Foundation. Karen Nelson, who headed the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), will lead the microbiome team. They launched a new company called Human Longevity Inc.

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News

26 ideas from the future that might surprise you

May 22, 2014

At TED2014, the speakers and attendees were asked to riff off the conference’s theme (“The Next Chapter”) and tell them what might radically change society, life, technology and so on in the next 30 years. The answers may surprise you.

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Analysis, Education, Latest Trend

Attending a better university doesn’t affect happiness after graduation

May 12, 2014

The college you attend is not the secret of happiness and satisfaction with work and life.

A new Gallup survey of 29,560 college graduates has found that the college they attended didn’t affect how happy they were after graduation, or their subsequent engagement with work.

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Analysis, Great Videos, Science & Technology News

Quantum theory proves consciousness moves to another universe at death

April 11, 2014

“Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the Nature of the Universe“ is a book written by the scientist Dr. Robert Lanza. The book has stirred up the Internet, because it contained a notion that life does not end when the body dies, and it can last forever. Lanza who was voted the 3rd most important scientist alive by the NY Times, has no doubts that this is possible. (Video)

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Should your life be automated so you can work harder?

March 17, 2014

Would you delegate all of your decisions to someone else?

Would you pay someone in the Philippines to answer your email for you — even your personal messages? Or hire strangers on the internet to plan your spouse’s big birthday party? Or throw meat, vegetables, and butter into a blender and call it dinner?

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Analysis, Human Behavior

Top 5 regrets of the dying

December 11, 2013

I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself.

In a book called “The Top Five Regrets of The Dying,” a palliative nurse recorded the most common regrets of the dying. It’s not surprising to see what made the list as they are all things that touch each of our lives as we struggle to pay attention to and make time for things that we truly love.

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Analysis, Great Videos, New Discoveries, Science & Technology News, Space

60 billion alien planets in our galaxy could support life: Study

July 5, 2013

New findings show that planets orbiting red dwarf stars are more likely to be habitable than previously believed.

Only about a dozen potentially habitable exoplanets have been detected so far but, scientists say the universe should be teeming with alien worlds that could support life. The Milky Way alone may host 60 billion such planets around faint red dwarf stars, a new estimate suggests. (Video)

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Analysis, Animals, Health & Fitness, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

How isolated people and animals die sooner

April 26, 2013

Single people have as high as twice the mortality rate of married people.

A trend that has held true in studies across the world and time periods is that single, widowed, and divorced people have as high as twice the mortality rate of married people. The tendencies for unmarried people to die seems to tell us about the relative strength of social bonds, which is supported by similar trends seen among ants, bees, and even cells, described in a fascinating paper in Cornell’s quantitative biology archive.

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Analysis, People Making a Difference

Seven thought-provoking questions you will ask at the end of your life

March 18, 2013

A while ago, Marc Chernoff shared the wisdom his grandmother had left behind for him after she passed away. The twelve pieces of wisdom were in her old leather-bound journal and it was named “Inspiration Journal.” On her last entry she had written seven questions. She never wrote the answers to these questions but they are very thought provoking questions. Here Marc shares his thoughts on the questions and he hopes that what he shares will inspire everyone who reads this and that you will be able to answer each question one day with a sense of peace and fulfillment.

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Is there more to life than being happy?

January 25, 2013

There is more in live than being happy.

Viktor Frankl, a prominent Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist in Vienna, was arrested and transported to a Nazi concentration camp with his wife and parents in September 1942. When his camp was liberated three years later, most of his family, including his pregnant wife, had perished, but Frankl, prisoner number 119104, had lived. In Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl’s bestselling 1946 book, he wrote in nine days about his experiences in the camps, he concluded that the difference between those who had lived and those who had died came down to one thing: Meaning, an insight he came to early in life. When he was a high school student, one of his science teachers declared to the class, “Life is nothing more than a combustion process, a process of oxidation.” Frankl jumped out of his chair and responded, “Sir, if this is so, then what can be the meaning of life?”

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