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Roger Rosenblatt
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Author Roger Rosenblatt argues that true peace in old age is not the absence of strife but an understanding and love of the variegated world — only achievable after a long life.
Roger Rosenblatt maintained a group of male friends — younger than himself — called 'Meatheads' for 50 years, starting by watching bad movies together, as a deliberate buffer against loneliness in old age.
Vitalist Bay is a Berkeley-based annual gathering for the longevity movement — part science fair, part lifestyle festival. Attendees range from tech workers to researchers and investors, and the crowd is more diverse than the billionaire-bro stereotype suggests.
Two startups at Vitalist Bay are building 'bodyoids' — headless biological sacks of organs that could replace failing human hearts, livers, and kidneys. The concept raises immediate philosophical alarm: if you replace enough organs, are you still you?
Every era has had its death-defying elixirs, from Egyptian pharaohs to Chinese emperors. Today's version swaps snake oil for AI and cryopreservation — and some researchers genuinely believe this time is different.
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