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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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Giant Stinky Mystery Flower is Classified…and has surprisingly normal relatives

Rafflesia (Rafflesiaceae)—a parasitic plant whose flower weighs more than a bowling ball and reeks of rotting flesh—has finally found its family. Found on rainforest floors in southern Asia, rafflesia has baffled botanists for two centuries. It is hard to classify because it is rootless, shootless and leafless; it only has a sinewy stem which it uses to siphon the nutrients and water it needs from the host plant it parasitizes.

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