169: Anti-Ageing Pills Coming Soon

Published: June 17, 2014, 7 p.m.

b'An Australian science researcher has recently claimed that anti-ageing treatments, possibly involving a pill, may be available for public use within the next 20 years. Encouraging tests with mice have shown experimental treatments either stopping or reverting the ageing process. This could potentially lead people to live very healthy and productive lives for much longer than anticipated now. Imagine playing tennis well in to your 90s! Steve and Ben discuss the anti-ageing research and what it could potentially mean for society. Steve and Ben discuss the film critic who responds to outrage over linking Seth Rogen with Elliot Rodger, Aussie science program The Curiosity Show makes a comeback after 24 years, and unbelievable display technology uses levitating particles as pixels.'