This week we were supposed to find two talks about an interesting topic, I chose living a longer life. In the first video Cynthia Kenyon experiments with worms and their genes to more then double their lives. In the next, Aubery de Grey talks about how aging is a curable disease. My learning goal is will preventing aging cause problems with our population and everyday lives?
I think its great that their is a way to make you live longer, by changing this one gene Cynthia more than doubled the life of those worms. Some people I believe would love that others...not so much.
Aubrey says we age in more than one way, I never really thought about it like that, it Makes sense though. I think it's weird that he thinks of aging as a disease.
if we were to have a learn this button their are 5 questions I have to help reach my learning goal:
1. How much longer does the average person live?
2. What percent of the population wants to expand their lives?
3. How many kids does a typical family have?
4. Will our economy support a higher population?
5. Can we provide the food and houses we need for a growing population?
