AGING UPDATE: As my serious-reading book for this trip, I’ve brought The Fountain of Youth: Cultural, Scientific, and Ethical Perspectives on a Biomedical Goal, published by Oxford and edited by Stephen Post and Robert Binstock. It’s a collection of very interesting essays on the topic of longevity, from a wide variety of perspectives (both Aubrey de Grey and Leon Kass are represented, which says it all).

UPDATE: By the way, interesting interview with Ray Kurzweil on longer life.