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conversations.value: a title for a book about Ph.D, Forever with the genre: Health, Fitness & Dieting
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'How to Live Forever'
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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled How To Live Forever about Detroit, GED, Wayne with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Humor & Satire.
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conversations.value: My story started in Detroit. After an early exit from high school, I was bronze foundry worker by day and art student by night, moving on to a GED, Wayne State University, and med school. Then came a family practice residency in Colorado, an alternative practice in Boulder, and a fellowship at UCLA. My partner lured me to her beloved NYC, where we had the second of three great kids, I taught for a few years, and was board certified in Preventive Medicine before dragging her back to this near-fictional isle in the great literal West. Currently, I hold a half-time position as a family doc, making it the world's best day job, a solid dose of life and patient care that leaves time to write (and, yes, a few healthy-lifestyle things that are fun enough to do but boring to read about, except - perhaps - in the context of a character-driven novel). Aside from a few published studies, I began my writing career with the Zen of Science column for Nexus, covering topics from sex to homeopathy, yoga, massage, meditation, acupuncture, social connectedness, and the psychology of cancer survival. A decade ago, I fell into fiction and have been addicted since. This led to the novels Resonance, Thrilling Romance, The Mortalist, a handful of short stories, and now, How To Live Forever. The last has been the best: the characters became friends, if rather odd ones, and Ive been fascinated by aging and longevity since, well, forever.
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conversations.value: Give me the first five paragraphs for this book.. End with the sentence 'com, undated.'.
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conversations.value: How To Live Forever
  Rob Gurwitt's essay on Experience Corps was published in the Innovations series, by Civic Ventures (now called Encore.org). This series is out of print and not available online.
  Interviews with Nancy Henkin were conducted in person and by phone in January 2018 and add to our conversations over more than two decades. On a related note, the Intergenerational Center at Temple University, founded by Henkin, was a leading center of intergenerational thought and innovation. Under her leadership, the center developed a wide range of critical intergenerational programs, including ones that focused on mentoring, family support, and cross-age relationships in immigrant and refugee communities. The center's recent closure after thirty-six years is a loss to the cause of bringing generations together for mutual benefit.
  For more about breakthrough innovations in aging of the past half century and their considerable benefits, see Patrick J. Kigger, "Ethel Percy Andrus: AARP Founder Proved There's Strength in Numbers," www.aarp.org/politics-society/history/champions-of-aging-photos/ethel-percy-andrus-aarp-founder.html; C. Eugene Steuerle, "Social Security and the Poor," Urban Institute, December 23, 2000; and "Who's Poor in America? 50 Years into the 'War on Poverty,' a Data Portrait," Pew Research Center, January 13, 2014.
  On cohousing, see Chris Bentley, "Can Boomers Make Cohousing Mainstream?" CityLab.com, January 20, 2015.
  On China's population, see Joseph F. Coughlin's article "China's Gray Revolution: Why China May Invent the New Business of Aging," BigThink.com, undated.
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conversations.value: For more about breakthrough innovations in aging of the past half century and their considerable benefits, see Patrick J. Kigger, "Ethel Percy Andrus: AARP Founder Proved There's Strength in Numbers," www.aarp.org/politics-society/history/champions-of-aging-photos/ethel-percy-andrus-aarp-founder.html; C. Eugene Steuerle, "Social Security and the Poor," Urban Institute, December 23, 2000; and "Who's Poor in America? 50 Years into the 'War on Poverty,' a Data Portrait," Pew Research Center, January 13, 2014.
  On cohousing, see Chris Bentley, "Can Boomers Make Cohousing Mainstream?" CityLab.com, January 20, 2015.
  On China's population, see Joseph F. Coughlin's article "China's Gray Revolution: Why China May Invent the New Business of Aging," BigThink.com, undated.
  A description of St. Joseph's intergenerational efforts is contained in multiple news articles, including Liyana Othman, "St. Joseph's Home Opens Childcare Centre, Intergenerational Playground in Nursing Home," Channel NewsAsia, August 28, 2017; "Singapore gets its first child care centre in a nursing home," YoungParents.com/sg, August 30, 2017; and Dr. Amy Khor, senior minister of state for health, speech at the official opening and fortieth-anniversary celebration of St. Joseph's Home, March 19, 2018. For more on the Happy Coffins project, check out the Lien Foundation website, lienfoundation.org, and lifebeforedeath.com/happy-coffins.
  More information about the Eisner Foundation's work can be found in Alyssa Ochs and David Callahan, "Intergenerational Funding: What This Foundation is Doing to Bring Children and Seniors Together," December 15, 2016, as well as on the foundation's website, www.eisnerfoundation.org.
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conversations.value: Prayers come from "A Jewish Service During Shiva," Association for Progressive Judaism, http://projudaism.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Shiva-Service-3.pdf.
  More than one thousand people contributed to developing this list of twenty-five intergenerational mentoring movies in 2018. For more on Gen2Gen activities, go to iamgen2gen.org.
  Freedman, Marc. "How to Live Forever." TEDxSanFrancisco. August 2017. www.tedxsanfrancisco.com/talk-marc-freedman.
  Kellaway, Lucy. "I'm Becoming a Teacher at 58—This Is Why You Should Too." TEDxLondonBusinessSchool. July 2017. youtu.be/LilaqTaQ6ss.
  Werner, Emmy. UC Davis Development & Alumni Relations. February 2015. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzcLo-LHTms.
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  John Sulston, the scientist who led the UK's side of the project, said that the knowledge of the human genome would have a far-reaching cultural effect on mankind, beyond its many practical uses'.
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  John Sulston, the scientist who led the UK's side of the project, said that the knowledge of the human genome would have a far-reaching cultural effect on mankind, beyond its many practical uses. "One should not underestimate how important this event is in human history. Over the decades and centuries to come this sequence will inform all of medicine, all of biology, and will lead us to a total understanding of not only human beings but all of life. Life is a unity, and by understanding one part you understand another."
  A person's DNA, if laid out in a straight line, would stretch to the Sun and back several times. Its 3 billion nucleotide letters are contained on 46 long chains, called chromosomes, within the nucleus of each of our cells (except eggs and sperm, which have half that number). The chromosomes come in 23 pairs, one version from each parent. Studded along the chromosomes are the 24,000 genes that encode the thousands of proteins you need to construct a human. Before you think that's impressive, the number of genes an organism has doesn't mean it is more complex: a fruit fly has 13,600 genes and a yeast has 6,000; but thale cress, a common weed, has 26,000 genes.
  Inside body cells a single-stranded version of DNA, called RNA, continually reads the genetic code in the nucleus and carries the information out into structures called ribosomes, which then build the proteins that are encoded by the DNA's instructions. Though every cell nucleus contains the entire genome, only parts of the genetic code are activated in different cells depending on the cell's function. Each gene is, on average, a few thousand base-pair letters long and contains codes for proteins to build muscle or cell walls, or make hormones or neurotransmitters that can regulate some aspect of behavior. A person's genome is the full set of instructions—everything you could ever need to know—to make that person.
  Genes account for less than 2 percent of the 3 billion letters of human DNA. Before scientists had properly grappled with the data from the human genome project, the remaining 98 percent of the DNA sequence was dismissively named "junk DNA." No-one knew why it was there or what it did. But the past decade has shown how this "junk" DNA story might be wholly wrong. Careful analysis shows it to be made of sequences of genetic material that can copy themselves and jump to other parts of the genome. Other sections resemble parts of the genomes of other vertebrate animals, which suggests that they may be doing something useful, otherwise why would they be conserved through millions of years of evolution? Yet other parts of junk DNA really do seem like junk, with endlessly repeated letters.
  Look at someone sitting near you and you will see that they are probably very different from you. There's a good chance he or she will be a different height and have differently colored hair, eyes and skin. Less obvious will be their different tolerance to types of headache tablet or their predisposition to specific diseases, such as cancer or stroke. Many of these physical properties are partially explained by the genetic cards we were dealt at birth—they are down to differences in the genetic code between you and that person.
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conversations.value: The military uses of Bleex are obvious: soldiers who can carry huge loads without getting tired would be more useful on any battlefield. But the inventors argue there are plenty of civilian applications too: firemen who need to climb stairs with heavy equipment or disaster relief workers who need to take supplies into areas where vehicles cannot go.
  What happens when a supersoldier wearing a Bleex system gets injured? What if that injury is so bad that it permanently damages an organ? The solution, of course, is a transplant, but these are not simple to come by. The waiting list in any country is long and finding matches can be tricky. In addition, the patient will invariably need to take drugs for the rest of their life to prevent the new organ from being attacked by their immune system.
  What if you could grow your own organs, however? Researchers hope to grow new tissue from stem cells to replace damaged material. The logical conclusion of this work would be to grow genetically matched organs, which would not be rejected by their immune systems. So far, scientists have grown tendons, cartilage and bladders from stem cells, but none of these has the complexity of organs, which are structures with dozens of different types of cells. In 2007, a research team at Imperial College London grew part of a human heart from stem cells. They produced a flat sheet of cells that behaved in the same way as a heart valve, a major achievement.
  A full organ requires something more: a scaffold on which to grow. Fortunately, the progress here has also been swift, with tiny protein scaffolds developed that can be loaded with stem cells and transplanted directly into a patient. The scaffold, developed in mice by Shuguang Zhang at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, encourages the stem cells to grow into a three-dimensional structure and is itself harmless to the patient.
  New organs created using this method might be a decade or so away, but in the meanwhile, what about an unending supply of animal organs? Anthony Warrens of Imperial College London has been working on "humanized" versions of pig organs that have been modified to be directly implantable into patients. Pigs are of similar size to humans and can be bred in large numbers. They are genetically similar enough for their organs to work in people, but sufficiently distant to reduce the risk of transfer of infections.
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conversations.value: An infectious particle made from DNA or RNA inside a protein coat that enters living cells and uses the machinery there to reproduce itself. After a cell has reproduced the virus, it usually dies.