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Dan Buettner: How to Live to Be 100+
by Dan Buettner
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
National Geographic writer and explorer Dan Buettner studies the world's longest-lived peoples, distilling their secrets into a single plan for health and long life.
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How Cancer Begins
by Robert Weinberg
Available on: Online Video
If you’re worried about getting cancer, do yourself a favor: steer clear of red meat and rich foods, and avoid cigarettes. In this lecture, Robert Weinberg provides the scientific basis for this commonplace advice…
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The Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
by Randy Pausch
Available on: Online Video
Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium.
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Nutrition and Physical Activity for a Lifetime
by Christina Economos
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Christina Economos discusses Living in the Balance: Nutrition and Physical Activity for a Lifetime as part of the Healing and Healthy Aging: Nurture and Nature track at the 2007 Chautauqua Institution Summer Program.
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Aubrey de Grey Says We Can Avoid Aging
by Aubrey de Grey
Available on: Audio Download | Video Download | Online Video
Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease -- and a curable one at that. Humans age in seven basic ways, he says, all of which can be averted.
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Randy Pausch Inspires Graduates at 2008 Carnegie Mellon Commencement
by Randy Pausch
Available on: Online Video
Professor Randy Pausch made a surprise return to Carnegie Mellon University to deliver an inspirational speech to the Class of 2008 at the Commencement ceremony on May 18, 2008.
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Boosting the Brain's Power Into Old Age
by Dharma Singh Khalsa
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa discusses Brain Longevity Now: Reverse Brain Aging by 12 Years and Improve Your Memory as part of the Healing and Healthy Aging: Nurture and Nature track at the 2007 Chautauqua Institution Summer Program.
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Tissue Engineering
by Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Imagine a world where we could engineer living tissues to cure a disease, heal an injury, or fix a broken heart…
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A Course on Death
by Shelly Kagan
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
There is one thing I can be sure of: I am going to die. But what am I to make of that fact? This course will examine a number of issues that arise once we begin to reflect on our mortality.
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Death Experiences: Stan Grof and Scott Eberle
by Stanislav Grof
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Scott Eberle and Stan Grof discuss Eberle's The Final Crossing and Grof's The Ultimate Journey.
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