October 15, 2018
Marijuana legalization has had passionate advocates and opponents for as long as I can remember. Opponents view marijuana as a dangerous gateway drug with no redeeming societal value. The other side see it as an almost mystical gift from Mother Nature.
October 8, 2018
The intensity of the Supreme Court appointment battle was due in large part to the length of a justice’s term. Like all US federal judges, Brett Kavanaugh’s is a lifetime appointment.
October 1, 2018
In the past week, I talked to two unconnected researchers whose teams believe they have discovered the genetic mechanisms that control aging. More importantly, both believe that they know how to reverse those mechanisms to restore peak adult health.
September 24, 2018
Because I make predictions for a living, people ask me what we’re going to do about all the people whose jobs are destroyed by artificial intelligence (AI) and automation.
September 17, 2018
It’s been a busy weekend, most of it spent in Medellin, Colombia. A good part of my time there involved visiting enormous high-tech greenhouses, each filled with fields of multiple varieties of cannabis in every state of development.
September 10, 2018
Occasionally, I get notes from readers complaining that I put too much emphasis on scientific innovation as a solution to the increasing costs of population aging, and not enough attention on lifestyle changes.
August 27, 2018
Over the last few decades, progress in the biological sciences has been nothing short of astonishing. Huge advances in IT and electronics have enabled scientists to observe and understand biological processes down to the scale of a single molecule.
August 20, 2018
Periodically, I’m asked if the reduced US life expectancy that has occurred in the last few years could slow or prevent the kind of problems Japan is experiencing. Let me explain why it won’t.
August 13, 2018
For years, I’ve predicted that Japan would be the first nation to wake up to the seriousness of continually increasing lifespans. The unexpected success of the book, The 100-Year Life—Living and Working in an Age of Longevity, in Japan indicates to me that a tipping point has finally been reached.
August 6, 2018
My biologist son recently brought a cold virus back from Tokyo. Therefore, it was probably inevitable that I’m now recovering from a minor respiratory tract infection (RTI). On the upside, it gave me time to think about what virus-borne diseases are teaching us about curing aging.
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