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Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 14:31:16 -0500
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Subject: Aubrey de Grey & Ben Best at Michigan SF Convention

On the weekend of January 21-23 Aubrey de Grey
will be the Science Guest of Honor at the
ConFusion science fiction convention held
in the Detroit suburb of Troy, Michgan.

http://cf2011.stilyagi.org/content/science-goh-aubrey-de-grey

Dr. de Grey is scheduled for no less than nine events for
the convention, beginning with a Friday 7pm introduction to
Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies_for_Engineered_Negligible_Senescence

and ending with a Sunday 11am panel on Transhumanism/Singularity.

I (Ben Best) will be with Dr. de Grey on both the
Transhumanism/Singularity as well as on a cryonics
panel scheduled for Saturday at 1pm. Also on the
cryonics panel will be Dr. Don Kleinsek, who attended
the last Cryonics Institute AGM in September 2010.

http://www.cryonics.org/immortalist/november10/AGM.pdf

Dr. Kleinsek is a stem-cell biotechnologist with
an interest in life extension. He will be giving
a presentation on his work at 2pm on Saturday.
I (Ben Best) will be giving a presentation on
dietary supplements, calorie restriction, and
other life extension practices exclusive of the
SENS-related ones on Saturday at 11am.

http://cf2011.stilyagi.org/content/panels-events-1

    -- Ben Best

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