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Longevity Is No Accident

June 6, 2017by lalancaster 1 Comment

What if sudden accidents were the only causes of death? What if there was no more starvation, heart disease or old age? How long would we live? One simulation at […]

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Culture and Society, Immortality

It’s All Relative

January 23, 2016by lalancaster Leave a comment

What is my grandfather’s brother called? I think he’s my great uncle but I’m not sure. I wanted to write this post while it’s still fresh in my mind so […]

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Culture and Society

Platinum Anniversary

April 15, 2015by lalancaster 2 Comments

A few years ago my parents, cousins, aunts and uncles all stood in a studio in our Sunday best, huddled around two empty chairs. It was my grandparent’s 5oth aniversary, […]

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Culture and Society

Theories of Aging- Rate-of-Living Theory

October 5, 2014by lalancaster 1 Comment

My dad and I used to watch the Indianapolis 500 Race each Memorial day. Three and a half hours and 200 laps of excitement. It always happened on Sunday, so we ate […]

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Aging, Biology

The Road to Immortality

November 9, 2013by lalancaster 3 Comments

This post is based on my current read, Long for this World, a book by science writer Jonathan Wiener. Life expectancy is the average number of years a person born […]

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Aging, Immortality

How Long Should We Live? Part III- Continued

October 30, 2013by lalancaster 2 Comments

I wrote the last two posts about the biological and ecological consequences of living longer, but also of doing away with death altogether. Now we come to something that intrigues […]

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Culture and Society, Immortality

How long should we live? Part III- To Infinity and Beyond

October 28, 2013by lalancaster Leave a comment

Last week I made the argument that humans were probably meant to live long lives since our children take so long to mature. But as medical and technological advances increase […]

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Aging, Biology

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