For two decades, the architect Stephen Valentine has been designing, planning and developing — though not yet building — a structure quite unlike anything built before. He calls the building Timeship and describes it as a repository for the technologies and people working to stretch the boundaries of being human, a Silicon Valley for life-extension research.

It’s the first take on an architecture of immortality, but is cryogenics hub Timeship a grand delusion or looming reality?

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Calling all the Longevity Superheroes, science needs you! We are proud to launch our brand new campaign and this time there is a twist.

We have launched our Lifespan Heroes campaign to raise funds for LEAF so we can continue delivering quality content, exclusive interviews, scientific commentaries, advocacy and more. We have done an amazing job over the last two years with our volunteers but now we need some help from our heroes — the longevity community.

Spring is the best time to celebrate life and remember all the good things we have achieved to improve and protect human life. One of the organizations which contributed the most to the development of healthcare systems around the globe is the World Health Organization founded by the United Nations. WHO’s Constitution came into force on 7 April 1948 – a date we now celebrate every year as World Health Day.

The main goals of the WHO are to provide leadership on matters critical to health, engage in partnerships where joint action is needed, shape the research agenda, support the dissemination of knowledge among all nations, set norms and standards in healthcare, articulate ethical and evidence-based policies. Let’s remember the definition of health by the WHO:

Haven’t we all heard it a billion times? ‘There are other priorities’ more urgent than defeating ageing. This article attempts to rebut that objection.

Somebody think of the children!!!

—Every social justice warrior ever

Sigh.

Before I say anything else, let me say this objection is one of my favourite trump cards (together with the social disparity card), not to mention a well-known logical fallacy going by the name of appeal to worse problems.