The return of our regular blog scan, courtesy of Michael Yamashita:
http://tinyurl.com/p9vq8
FuturePundit explains that british actuaries are no longer able to
accurately predict lifespan as the population seems to be approaching
‘actuarial escape velocity’, and includes a definition from Aubrey.
Profile page: http://www.futurepundit.com
Technorati scores
General links to blog: 1461
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http://tinyurl.com/ph8hx
Phil Bowermeister recalls his favourite past interviews, includes
Aubrey and Michael Anissimov on immortality.
Profile page: http://tinyurl.com/7mj8h
Technorati scores
General links to blog: 488
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http://tinyurl.com/lstlx
Cameron Reilly links to videos of Aubrey’s address to the TED2006 and
TEDGlobal conferences, and his interview last year with Aubrey.
Profile page: http://tinyurl.com/h3v8a
Technorati scores
General links to blog: 387
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http://tinyurl.com/mhpq9
Michael Anissimov posts YouTube of Aubrey’s interview on Canada Now.
Profile page: http://tinyurl.com/hv6qo
Technorati scores
General links to blog: 291
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http://tinyurl.com/pljek
Blogger writes on the TR Review results, with snippets from the TR
press release. Includes link to MF official announcement.
Profile page: http://tinyurl.com/ohxym
Technorati scores
General links to blog: 257
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http://tinyurl.com/rshl6
David Tufte’s blog links to Futurepundit piece and British Actuary
Society page on the unreliability of death prediction given rising
lifespans – points out it proves Aubrey’s concept of actuarial escape
velocity.
Profile page: http://tinyurl.com/n7bh9
Technorati scores
General links to blog: 79
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http://tinyurl.com/qafjt
Actuary blogger quotes Reuters piece on pension age and Aubrey’s
comment that future life extension advances will require overhauls of
the entire system. Blogger notes that in the US the age thresholds
for Social Security will need to adjusted to average lifespans.
Profile page: http://tinyurl.com/lbbdb
Technorati scores
General links to blog: 78
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http://tinyurl.com/qldmh
Blogger points out that resistance to life-extension is comparable to
abandoning or forcibly euthanizing the disabled.
Profile page: http://tinyurl.com/hkv5c
Technorati scores
General links to blog: 36
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http://tinyurl.com/mm3nt
Attila Csordas illustrates the move that IT businesses like Google
are making towards biotech.
Profile page: http://pimm.wordpress.com/about/
Technorati scores
General links to blog: 9
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http://tinyurl.com/p3bl7
Chris Patil quotes skeptics of CR, but points out their skepticism is
not yet based in solid science, so it’s hard to tell one way or the
other.
Profile page: http://ouroboros.wordpress.com/about/
Technorati scores
General links to blog: 5
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http://tinyurl.com/o75p6
Link to Livescience piece “Immortality Through Science”
Profile page: http://tinyurl.com/phv2o
Technorati scores
General links to blog: 2
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http://tinyurl.com/mtdel
Another hit from Reuters piece on raised life expectancies and their
effect on society and pensions.
Profile page: http://tinyurl.com/olp6n
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General links to blog: 1
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http://tinyurl.com/or7oh
Finnish blogger on the Helsinki Tranvision convention, writes in
Russian.
Profile page: http://finding-brains.livejournal.com/profile
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http://tinyurl.com/punba
Blogger Parijata Mackey links to ClassicalValues blog article that
eloquently criticizes Leon Kass’ biocon arguments. Also argues that
the tools of innovation must be embraced by the garage hacking
community to catalyze faster R&D.
Profile page: http://tinyurl.com/m5n3e
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General links to blog: 0
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