Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Youtube video on aging

 I made a youtube video on aging: 

Not very successful. I went a bit easy. I left out the bit about alzheimer's and cataracts being caused deliberately by our genes, though it is partly hinted in a slide.

Suddenly aging communication is everywhere. We see a conference at Berkeley: https://www.berkeleycal.org/. And then PBS has a video:


Which says stuff I disagree with: in particular competing with your descendents is not group selection. And even mammals that aren't sociable don't move as far from their descendents as birds and fish commonly do.