After I make billions and billions in the stock market, I plan on using it to live forever. Just kidding, but this is a very interesting article.

De Grey contends that we know enough to intelligently map out a program of anti-aging intervention research such that sometime in the next 100 years, and quite possibly much sooner, the average human life span may be 5,000 years, a figure brought short of outright immortality by the small number of people who will die from non-age-related diseases and everybody else who, given the boggling amount of time available to them on the planet, will eventually do something unlucky or stupid like walk in front of a moving rocket car. In de Grey time, the 400-year span between Shakespeare’s England and today would be but the blink of an eye. -- via boingboing

I am also fascinated by caloric restriction - which increases longevity by 30%. After reading this, I have decided that I am going to try to stop eating lunch again.

More profoundly, writes Richard Weindruch, a geriatric researcher at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, caloric restriction appears to consistently increase not just the average life span of a subject population, but also the maximum life span or lifetime of the longest-surviving members of a group or species. In other words, CR seems to alter some basic process of aging.