Long for This World

If science extends the average lifespan by one year for every calendar year of R&D, we'll all live forever!  Although the actual state of cutting-edge geriatric medicine is not quite so simple or sanguine, Pulitzer winner Jonathan Weiner makes a good case for the advent of radical life extension technologies just down the road.

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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