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Podcast #52: Nurturing Foresight in a Short-Sighted World, with Peter Hayward
It is not in our stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.Willaim Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene III Got foresight? Do you even need it? Hell yes, you do. The consequences of lack of f
Podcast #51: The Longevity Dialogues Part 1, The Long View, with Sergey Young, David Wood, and Jose Cordeiro
“What I’m after is not living to 1,000. I’m after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.”–Aubrey de Grey It’s all so complicated. Back in January I hosted a panel entitled The Dawn of Superlongevity: Scenarios for a post-aging future. I h
Podcast #50: Future Minds, with Richard Yonck
“I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.”–Stephen Hawking For Seeking Delphi’s™ fiftieth** episode, we return to visit with one of our earliest guests, prof
Special Edition Mini-Cast: Preview of the 2020 Ending Age-Related Diseases Conference
“As far as I’m concerned, aging is humanity’s worst problem, by some serious distance.”–Aubrey de Grey Keith Comito, president of Life Extension Advocacy Foundation, joins me for a discussion to preview the 2020 Eding Age Related Diseases conference, to
Podcast #49: The Future of Veterinary Medicine, with Dr. Donna Harris and Dr. Karen Rosenthal
“Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.”–Robert Wagner Even as the pandemic-struck U.S. economy shrunk by 32% in the first quarter of this year, veterinary medicine saw a different story. Pet ownership soared at a record pace, and
Podcast #48: Space Commerce with Tess Hatch
“I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.”–Elon Musk With the May 30 launch of two American astronauts to the International Space Station aboard the SpaceX Dragon Crew capsule, history was made. This was not only the fir
Podcast #47: Technology and The Brain, with Laura Cabrera
“The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.”–Thomas Edison Richard Dawkins might disagree with Thomas Edison. He’d likely say the purpose of our bodies and our brains is to carry around–and perpetuate– our genes. Increasingly, though
Podcast #46: The Post-Covid Future, Part 3: The Electrical Grid and Emergency Preparedness, with Shay Bahramirad
“Without Electricity, the air would rot.” Ralph Waldo Emerson What might Ralph Waldo Emerson say if he lived in the age of “shelter-at-home?” Perhaps he’d opine that without electricity, we all would rot. At any rate, we’d all be a lot more miserab
Podcast #45: The Post Covid-19 Future, Part 2, Economics and Investing with Jim Lee
“The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.”–Bernard Baruch For all the pain, suffering, sickness in death, all we have to look forward to if we survive the pandemic, is the worst global economy since the 1930’s.
Podcast #44: The Post Covid-19 Future, Part 1, Urban and Social Issues with Cindy Frewen
“If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.”–Irwin Redlener There is no doubt about it. The after-effects of the COVID-19 pandemi