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Josh Mitteldorf

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Josh Mitteldorf, de-platformed senior editor at OpEdNews, blogs on aging at http://JoshMitteldorf.ScienceBlog.com. Read how to stay young at http://AgingAdvice.org.
Educated to be an astrophysicist, he has branched out from there to mathematical modeling in a variety of areas, including evolutionary ecology and economics. He has taught mathematics, statistics, and physics at several universities. He is an avid amateur pianist, and father of two adopted Chinese girls, now grown. He travels to Beijing each year to work with a lab studying the biology of aging. His book on the subject is "Cracking the Aging Code", http://tinyurl.com/y7yovp87.

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691 Articles, 456 Quick Links, 1253 Comments, 11 Diaries, 4 Series, 2 Polls

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(81 comments)        Friday, March 27, 2009
What happened to Obama's Campaign Promise of Peace?   SHARE More Sharing President Obama was elected with an overwhelming mandate for peace. He promised to withdraw troops from Iraq, to close Guantanamo, and to end the practices of torture, domestic spying and detention without trial. He decried the dictatorial arrogation of power that Bush had claimed as President. Now in office, why does he look so little like a 'Peace President'?
(22 comments)        Monday, February 9, 2009
Why do we get old?   SHARE More Sharing In the context of evolution, natural selection is supposed to be optimizing fitness. Getting old and dying seems to be the opposite of fitness. Why has natural selection caused (or permitted) living things to deteriorate with age, and to die?

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