Breakthroughs in Genetic Life Extension - David Ewing Duncan

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/07/15/Creative_Disruptions_David_Ewing_Duncan

David Ewing Duncan, co-host of NPR's "Biotech Nation," outlines new scientific breakthroughs in aging research.

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David Ewing Duncan discusses Creative Disruptions as a part of The Ethical Frontiers of Science during the 2008 Chautauqua Institution morning lecture series.

David Ewing Duncan is an award-winning, best-selling author of six books and numerous essays, articles and short stories, and a television, radio and film producer and correspondent. He is the co-host of NPR's Biotech Nation. Duncan's most recent book is Masterminds: Genius, DNA and the Quest to Rewrite Life (Harper Perennial), previously titled The Geneticist Who Played Hoops with My DNA and other masterminds from the frontiers of biotech (William Morrow/HarperCollins). His last book was the international bestseller Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year (Harper-Collins/Avon), published in 19 languages, and a bestseller in 14 countries. He is currently at work on Healing Touch: From Shaman's Magic to Digital People, One Man's Intimate Examination.

David is a Contributing Editor to Wired, and Discover, and a science columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, a commentator for NPR's Morning Edition and co-host of BioTech Nation on NPR. He has been a special correspondent and producer for ABC's Nightline and 20/20, and a producer for Discovery Television. He is a correspondent for NOVA's ScienceNow!. He is a regular contributor to National Geographic, Fortune and MIT Technology Review, and was a longtime correspondent for Life. He also writes for Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, Outside, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Washington Post Book World, and The New York Times, among others. He contributes to the Dialogues column for Discover.

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[imarchello]

I'm rather alive and bored than dead.

[SkyDaddy7]

@imarchello I agree! I want to see where we go and what happens. Most of all I would love to live long enough to see religions of all stripes become mythology like all the others in the past have.

[xfilesmanson]

the old dude in the back is thinking fuck i need a nap this guy is putting me to sleep

[xfilesmanson]

maybe these guys have grey hair because there seminar lectures are so damn boring

[SidandCoke]

@SkyDaddy7 here here!

[mysql0]

Life extension is good. The religious nutters can turn it down since they wrongly believe in a heaven. They will comitt suicide by denying the Life Extension medicines, and in turn contirbute to Evolution.

The logical humans that are clever and are atheist will accept the treatments and will survive.

Whereas the low IQ humans that cannot think logically and are dumb will die off as they refuse the life-saving technology, wrongly believing they go to a magic land called heaven upon death. LOL!

[zoveia]

that old guy face was the best.... so old uhdaud

[ilovemushi]

@1NX9 you just depressed me like fuck!!!.....Not to say that I am a very old guy. I am 21.

[lSaif]

@SkyDaddy7 Why?

[Blacklabel85]

lol the old guy in the background is like wtf im not gonna be around for this pill