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Friday, October 24, 2008, 07:00 PM: Life Extension with Jerry Emanuelson
Jerry will be talking about his 25+ year experience with life extension treatments, including hormone injections, his longevity doctor, what treatments to ask a doctor for, how to find and guide a doctor, an interesting example of the 'medical priesthood vs. empowered patient' conflict as more healthcare treatments are about prevention/enhancement, getting his DNA scanned with deCODEme and opensourcing his genome on the SNPedia.com, and more.
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Last November President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to construct a new space center, to be named Vostochny, in the Amur Region, in Russia's Far East.
Russia currently uses two launch sites for space carrier rockets and ballistic missiles tests: the Baikonur space center in the Central Asian Republic of Kazakhstan, which it has leased since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the Plesetsk space center in northwest Russia.
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Russia's annual nanotechnology production must reach at least 1 trillion rubles ($41 billion) by 2015, Russia's science and education minister said on Thursday.
Following a government session on nanotechnology development in Russia, Andrei Fursenko said the figure was attainable, if ambitious.
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[Opinion] Moscow's rapprochement with its regional ally are inevitable as instability widens.
The Persian state is bordered effectively by four war zones. The first is Turkey whereby Ankara appears in have been drawn this December into a "mini guerrilla war "with the Kurds on its southeastern border. Furthermore, the other three: Iraq, Afghanistan and now Pakistan are all in a big-bloody mess to say the least. Iraq has begun to decompose and is headed for a de facto partition along sectarian-religious lines. Afghanistan risks "rollback" in the form of a Taliban revival and return to power of the Mullahs and Imams.
Moreover, nuke equipped and civil- war prone Pakistan is on the verge of an Islamist takeover which would make the 1979" Iranian revolution" look like a kindergarten- tea party by comparison.
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Russia intends to become an alternative global financial centre and to make the rouble a reserve currency for central banks.
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Expenditure on science in Russia could total about 600 billion rubles ($24.6 billion) by 2010, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
While opening a session of the presidential council on science, technology and education, Putin announced that the meeting's participants were due to discuss a program of fundamental scientific research for 2008-2012.
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Russian scientists have completed the first stage of preparations for an experimental Mars mission simulation, Mars-500, a medical research institute announced on Thursday.
The purpose of the main experiment, expected to begin in late 2008, is to simulate a space flight to Mars taking into account all ramifications, including a 250-day "trip" to the Red Planet, a 30-day period on its surface, and a 240-day return flight.
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