Month: December 2015

I am a passionate life extensionist.  I am a passionate conservationist.  I have been living with a contradiction, increasingly stark as my understanding of both these causes, and my commitment to them deepens. Nearly 20 years ago, I first became convinced by a variety of experimental evidence that aging is programmed into our genes by … Read more

Years ago, I worked for an energy conservation priest whose motto was, “anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.”  We were training unemployed young people to install fuel-efficient furnaces in the homes of people who couldn’t afford heat.  My boss’s point was that the new furnaces were so much more efficient than the old that … Read more