11th Aging Research & Drug Discovery Meeting (ARDD 2024) Update
The 11th Aging Research & Drug Discovery Meeting (ARDD 2024) will be
held August 26–30 in Cyberspace and at the University of Copenhagen,
Denmark.
Our Rozalyn Anderson, Daniela Bakula, Nir Barzilai, Evelyne Yehudit
Bischof, Gil Blander, Filipe Cabreiro, Aubrey de Grey, João Pedro de
Magalhães, Marco Demaria, Collin Ewald, Luigi Ferrucci, Kristen Fortney,
Vadim N. Gladyshev, Vera Gorbunova, Steve Horvath, Joshua Johnson, Jamie
Justice, Brian K. Kennedy, Andrea B. Maier, Alexey Moskalev, Anders
Sandberg, Morten Scheibye-Knudsen, Björn Schumacher, Vittorio
Sebastiano, Raghav “RV” Seghal, Ryan Smith, Petr Sramek, Yousin Suh,
Joseph Takahashi, Mourad (Toporsian) Topors, Jan Vijg, Benjamin Yaden,
and Alex Zhavoronkov will be speaking.
Learn more at https://agingpharma.org
Healthy Masters
Healthy Masters will be held November 2–3 in Braga, Portugal and in
cyberspace.
Healthy Masters provides people around the world with the opportunity to
learn from the most remarkable leaders in the fields of health and
longevity.
Our Maria Entraigues Abramson, Bill Andrews, Ben Best, Evelyne Yehudit
Bischof, David Brin, José Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Brian Delaney,
Valerio Di Nicola, Paul Epping, Collin Ewald, Gregory M. Fahy, William
Faloon, Steven Garan, Anastasiya Giarletta, Vera Gorbunova, Brigitte
Hanly, Rudi Hoffman, Andrea B. Maier, Jeffery A. Martin, Nuno Martins,
Josh Mitteldorf, Ines O’Donovan, Liz Parrish, Alexander Paziotopoulos,
Steve Perry, Denisa Rensen, Paul Spiegel, Ilia Stambler, Natasha
Vita-More, Pete Worden, and Alex Zhavoronkov will be speaking.
Learn more at https://healthymasters.net
RAADfest 2024
RAADfest 2024 will be held September 5–8 in Anaheim, California.
RAADfest is designed to be the most immersive and interactive longevity
event in the world. With content presented for a general audience, it
attracts numerous practitioners, researchers, writers and members of the
media, as well as individuals seeking to know the best ways to take
charge of their longevity. They also feature live entertainment, which
informs and expresses the inspirational spirit of RAADfest.
Our Bill H. Andrews, José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Brian M.
Delaney, Greg M. Fahy, William Faloon, Sandra Kaufmann, Laurence Ion,
Elizabeth Parrish, Joe Purita, Michael R. Rose, Stephen Sideroff, Ryan
Smith, James Strole, Hannah Went, Jason R. Williams, and Sajad Zalzala
will be speaking.
Learn more at https://raadfest.com
Papers
Read “An existential discussion: What is the probability of nuclear
war?”, coauthored by our Martin E. Hellman at
https://thebulletin.org/2021/03/an-exis...lear-war
Read “Estimates of economic and environmental damages from tipping
points cannot be reconciled with the scientific literature”, coauthored
by our Brian P. Hanley at
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pn...17308119
Read “Variations in climate habitability parameters and their effect on
Earth’s biosphere during the Phanerozoic Eon”, coauthored by our Dirk
Schulze-Makuch at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598&...;39716-z
Read “World Futures Day 2022: A mixed method approach to identify topics
of a global futures agenda”, coauthored by our Mara Di Berardo and
Simone Di Zio at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2023.103244
Books
Read “Algorithmic Information Dynamics: A Computational Approach to
Causality with Applications to Living Systems”, coauthored by our Hector
Zenil at https://amzn.to/3WwD0Ld
Read “Conceptual Breakthroughs in The Evolutionary Biology of Aging”,
coauthored by our Michael R. Rose at https://amzn.to/4fvtXmA
Read “Religion and Outer Space”, which includes a chapter by our Jason
Batt at
https://www.routledge.com/Religion-and-...67542276
Read “Tripping Points on the Road to Outwit Terror” by our Yair Sharan,
Ted J. Gordon, and Elizabeth Florescu at https://amzn.to/3WNrtsi
Blog
Recent interesting blog posts include:
“‘3000-light-years away’: ESA discovers 21 exploded stars orbiting our
sun-like stars in deep space” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/3000-...ep-space
“3D-printed mini-actuators can move small soft robots, lock them into
new shapes” by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/3d-pr...w-shapes
“A Big Wreck Is About To Happen At The Intersection Of Artificial
Intelligence Boulevard And Net Zero Avenue” by Robert Bosnjak at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/a-big...o-avenue
“Aging and cancer” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/aging-and-cancer
“AI Appears to Rapidly Be Approaching Brick Wall Where It Can’t Get
Smarter” by Zola Balazs Bekasi at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/ai-ap...-smarter
“Ammo ATM? AI-powered bullet vending machines introduced in US” by
Omuterema Akhahenda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/ammo-...ed-in-us
“Apple Bursts Onto the AI Stage with Apple Intelligence, ChatGPT, and
Multimodal Siri” by Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/apple...dal-siri
“Apple partner’s new material boosts solid-state batteries by 100x” by
Gemechu Taye at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/apple...-by-100x
“Archaeologists discover stunning find hidden below Nile waters” by
Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/archa...e-waters
“Are Humans the First Civilization? The Silurian Hypothesis” by Jose
Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/are-h...pothesis
“At 716 times per second, this neutron star is the universe’s fastest
spinning celestial object” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/at-71...l-object
“Augmenting Human Capabilities With Artificial Intelligence Agents” by
Chuck Brooks at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/augme...e-agents
“AWS exec explains how AI agents are driving a radical shift in the
world of coding” by Mike Diverde at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/aws-e...f-coding
“Brain implants to restore sight, like Neuralink’s Blindsight, face a
fundamental problem – more pixels don’t ensure better vision” by Rx
Sobolewski at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/brain...r-vision
“Breakthrough molecule reverses Alzheimer’s symptoms” by Arthur Brown at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/break...symptoms
“China: Robot doctors at world’s 1st AI hospital can treat 3,000 a day”
by Michael LaTorra at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/china...00-a-day
“China’s new humanoid robot does it all — from Kung Fu to cooking” by
Mike Diverde at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/china...-cooking
“Could High-Temperature Single Crystals enable Electric Vehicles capable
of Traveling up to One Million Km?” by Natalie Chan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/could...llion-km
“CRISPR Gene Drives and the Future of Evolution” by Dan Breeden at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/crisp...volution
“Former OpenAI Director Warns There Are Bad Things AI Can Do Besides
Kill You” by Zola Balazs Bekasi at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/forme...kill-you
“Fusion Sparks an Energy Revolution” by Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/fusio...volution
“Game developer swaps all servers to AMD, claims ‘Intel is selling
defective’ CPUs” by Chima Wisdom at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/game-...ive-cpus
“India edges past the UK in critical technologies research; IIT Bombay,
Roorkee top performers” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/india...rformers
“Is Coffee Associated With A Younger Biological Age?” by Mike Lustgarten
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/is-co...ical-age
“Meta plans to use 10 times more compute to train its next-generation
Llama 4 AI model” by Dan Kummer at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/meta-...ai-model
“MIT Claims New Artificial Neuron 1 Million Times Faster Than the Real
Thing” by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/mit-c...al-thing
“NASA likely to significantly delay the launch of Crew 9 due to
Starliner issues” by Eric Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/nasa-...r-issues
“Never-before-seen shapes up to 1,300 feet long discovered beneath
Antarctic ice” by Arthur Brown at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/never...ctic-ice
“Oceans of water may be trapped deep beneath the Martian surface” by
Claudio Soprano at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/ocean...-surface
“Rapidly spinning ‘extreme’ neutron star discovered by US Navy research
intern” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/rapid...h-intern
“Researchers find brains can tune their navigation system without
landmarks” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/resea...andmarks
“The Role of Magnetic Fields in Planetary Habitability” by Laurence
Tognetti at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/the-r...tability
“Scientists Are Testing How to Put ‘Living Skin’ On Robot Faces, With
Nightmarish Results” by Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/scien...-results
“Stanford Engineers a Pocket-Sized Titanium-Sapphire Super Laser” by
Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/stanf...er-laser
“‘Teams of AI agents working together’ – The Sci-Fi Future Being Built
RIGHT NOW” by Mike Diverde at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/teams...ight-now
“These scientists want to safeguard Earth’s species by cryogenically
preserving them on the moon” by Arthur Brown at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/these...the-moon
“Tiny new lasers fill a long-standing gap in the rainbow of
visible-light colors” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/tiny-...t-colors
“Toddlers’ brains show significant growth in cognitive skills by 16
months, study finds” by The Neuro-Network at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/07/toddl...dy-finds
“Using atomic excitations to measure the rotation of spacetime” by Saúl
Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/using...pacetime
“When We’re Overly Optimistic about the Pace of Life Extension Research”
by Zoltan Istvan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/when-...research
“Why Does Biological Evolution Work? A Minimal Model for Biological
Evolution and Other Adaptive Processes” by Dan Breeden at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/why-d...rocesses
“Your Memories Are Like Paintings” by Cecile G. Tamura at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/your-...aintings
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