Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality

by Jonathan Weiner
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Jonathan Weiner comes a fast-paced and astonishing scientific adventure story: has the long-sought secret of eternal youth at last been found? A rollicking scientific adventure story in the grand manner of Oliver Sacks, this is science writing of the hightes order and with the highest stakes. Could we live forever? And if we could … would we want to?