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• Cryonics Society of Canada potluck dinner, 2006

  This past Saturday August 12 was the Cryonics Society of Canada 's annual potluck dinner. Allan Randall, the director of CSC, was kind enough to organize and host the event. This was my first time attending a CSC event (I don't have a cryonics Read More...
  Posted Sunday, August 13, 2006 8:43 PM by George / 0 Comments

  Tags: life extension, cryonics, cryonics society of canada

• Mark Walker's superlongevity talk for the TTA

  On Thursday April 20, 2006, at the University of Toronto's Bahen Centre for Information Technology, Dr. Mark Walker delivered a presentation about the ethics of radical life extension, or as Walker refers to it, 'superlongevity.' The talk was organized Read More...
  Posted Saturday, April 22, 2006 2:06 PM by George / 0 Comments

  Tags: life extension, Toronto Transhumanist Association

• Things that should make cryonicists go "Hmmmm"

  At the TTA 's recent cryonics talk by Allan Randall , a couple of interesting issues cropped up -- some I had considered before and some I hadn't. For example, in order to be able to afford a cryonics contract, most people put out a second life insurance Read More...
  Posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 9:00 PM by George / 9 Comments

  Tags: Bioethics, life extension, cryonics

• Some scientists say SENS not up to snuff

  The BBC is reporting on how twenty-eight scientists working in gerontology have submitted a rebuttal to a paper published by Dr Aubrey de Grey in the journal EMBO Reports last year. The rebuttal is not so much a technical account of the apparent failings Read More...
  Posted Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:14 PM by George / 3 Comments

  Tags: life extension, immortality

• Challenging SENS

  Remember back in January 2005 when Technology Review editor-in-chief Jason Pontin slammed anti-aging expert Aubrey de Grey ? Well, looks like Pontin is at it again, and this time he's putting his money where his mouth is. Last July Pontin offered a challenge Read More...
  Posted Wednesday, March 15, 2006 8:58 PM by George / 11 Comments

  Tags: life extension, immortality

• Olshansky wants you live an astounding 7 years longer!

  Direct from the 'lack of vision' department comes S. Jay Olshanksky's latest offering to the great life extension debate. In collaboration with Daniel Perry, Richard A. Miller and Robert N. Butler, Olshansky has published a piece for The Scientist in Read More...
  Posted Thursday, March 09, 2006 4:25 PM by George / 7 Comments

  Tags: Bioethics, life extension, immortality