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We all have to go sometime, and that final hour is the mother of all deadlines. But scientists are working to file an extension. Discover how far we can push the human expiration date.\nPlus, the animal with the shortest lifespan and the chemistry that causes your pot-roast to eventually clothe itself in fuzzy green mold.\nAlso, a clock that won\u2019t stop ticking (for 10,000 years) and our love-hate relationship with that long-lived hydrocarbon that keeps our snack cakes fresh: plastic!\nGuests:\n\n\nMartin Bucknavage- Senior Food Safety Extension Associate, Department of Food Science at Penn State\n\n\nLeonard Guarente \u2013 Biologist, Laboratory for the Science of Aging, M.I.T.\n\n\nAlexander Rose \u2013 Executive Director and Clock Project Manager, Long Now Foundation\n\n\nRick Hochberg \u2013 Biologist, University of Massachusetts \u2013 Lowell\n\n\nSusan Freinkel \u2013 Author of Plastic: A Toxic Love Story\n\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices