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Alone for months, never lonely: what a Sardinian blue zone taught me about living longer
In a Sardinian blue zone, Paola Demurtas told us what she fears most about ageing. Not dying: being lonely, which is not the same as being alone.
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Book burning on a massive scale. And it is waiting for all of us.
Liz Parrish put four experimental gene therapies into her own body. On a forest path near Seattle she told us what she fears most, and it is not dying.
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My son came home and nobody believed him
A year meeting the people trying to extend human life, and then he came home to Warsaw and nobody believed him. Three numbers, and what actually moves people.
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The most important thing I learned on the Quest, I didn’t learn from the scientists
A year on the road with my son and more than a hundred longevity scientists. The most important thing I learned came from the teenager in the passenger seat — and from Srikumar Rao, who told me he had never thought about longevity until my email arrived.
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