Methuselah Mouse and Actuarial Escape Velocity, Best of TWT

Published: Feb. 1, 2017, 12:30 a.m.

b"[This show first aired 11/26/2007.]\\nDavid Gobel cofounded\\xa0The Methuselah Foundation\\xa0and the\\xa0The Methuselah Mouse Prize.Polio\\xa0and\\xa0The March of Dimes.The ongoing\\xa0Sabin v. Salk\\xa0controversy.Why Napolean is, in spite of himself, one of the great benefactors of humanity. He offered a food preservation prize that resulted in\\xa0canning.David Gobel first proposed the concept of\\xa0Actuarial Escape Velocity\\xa0- a point in time at which the acceleration of advances in biomedical technology surpass the rate at which humans age .And, lastly, Dave Gobel\\xa0explained\\xa0how normal people with normal incomes are making the Methuselah Mouse Prize possible.Other than aging, what's the deadliest disease in the world? You might be\\xa0surprised."