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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Do You Want To Live Forever?



Channel 4 Documentary following the revolutionary life-extension and immortality ideas of this somewhat eccentric scientist, Dr. Aubrey de Grey. This show is all about the radical ideas of a Cambridge biomedical gerontologist called Aubrey de Grey who believes that, within the next 20-30 years, we could extend life indefinitely by addressing seven major factors in the aging process. He describes his work as Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS).

Monday, April 26, 2010

Human, All Too Human : Nietzsche




Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher of the late 19th century who challenged the foundations of Christianity and traditional morality. He was interested in the enhancement of individual and cultural health, and believed in life, creativity, power, and the realities of the world we live in, rather than those situated in a world beyond.

World's Most Dangerous Drug



It's the drug that stops at nothing. It's taken my children, my freedom, my teeth, my looks, my ability to function in society. It has a dozen names crystal, ice, tina, crank. Most just call it meth, short from methamphetamine. It's more powerful and cheaper than cocaine. A typical hit can keep somebody high from anywhere from 6 to 12 hours and you can make it in your own backyard.