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Why Our Obsession With Extending Lifespans Is a Distraction

Jatinder Hayre Jacobin magazine
Life expectancies have risen for most people across the world. But the gap between how long people live and how long they will live healthily is widening. Poor labor conditions and lack of health care are to blame.

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Sunday Science: Aging Is Complicated

Ellen Quarles The Conversation
A biologist explains why no two people or cells age the same way, and what this means for anti-aging interventions

Kareem Abdul-Jaabar: My Body Wants To Assassinate Me

Kareem Abdul-Jaabar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
As the NBA playoffs begin, all-time basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jaabar reflects on the love/hate relationship he has had with his own body as he and it have aged in the years since he retired.
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