Controversial scientist Aubrey de Grey of the Methuselah Foundation in Springfield, VA just received $3.5 million from Peter A. Thiel, co-founder and former chief executive officer of the online payments system PayPal. de Gray, an aging researcher hopes to radical postpone aging and give us indefinate life spans. de Gray said, “we have vintage cars driving around that were designed to last 15 years–and they’re 100 years old. So why should humans be any different? He hopes now that his funding is secured his research can help us to live thousands of years.
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Eggsploitation is Now an E-Book
We've made the important message of our award-winning film available in another medium. We have combined the transcript of the film with several other related resources into a new e-book, now available at Amazon for reading on all of Amazon's Kindle devices and apps.
Check out the book, post a review on Amazon, let us know what you think.This is Huxley’s Brave New World
This video has really struck a chord. We've received a number of notes on how it has helped people in thinking about (and communicating about) reproductive technologies.
This summer CBC founder and president Jennifer Lahl was interviewed for a documentary on reproductive technologies for German TV. Jennifer's segment, aptly titled "This is Huxley's Brave New World," is available online (the interview is in English with German subtitles).
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