02.16.15. Science and the Quest for Eternal Youth




The Micah Hanks Program show

Summary: <br> This week on The Gralien Report, former Clinton and Obama staffer John Podesta is all the rage as he expresses “regrets” about the lack of <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://news.yahoo.com/outgoing-obama-adviser-john-podesta-s-biggest-regret-of-2014--keeping-america-in-the-dark-about-ufos-234149498.html">public disclosure of UFO files.</a> Elsewhere, a group of scientists, including one Nobel Prize Laureate, believe they may have found evidence of an <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/03/aliens-send-space-seed-to-earth_n_6608582.html">eerie intervention in Earth life</a>, following the discovery of a strange metallic globe in our atmosphere. Also, something strange is happening in our National Parks… we’ll hear an odd story from a pair of hikers that could be summed up with two words: “silence falls.”<br> Finally, “Rapamycin” is all the rage this week, with both Time Magazine and Bloomberg Businessweek both devoting cover stories to the science of anti-aging and prolonged youth… which sets us off on a quest through history in <a href="https://www.gralienreport.com/science-and-technology/how-easter-islands-heads-may-lead-to-a-fountain-of-youth/">search of the fabled “Fountain of Youth</a>,” and its mythological parallels to the modern world. Are humans set to live longer lives… through science?<br> Follow <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.twitter.com/GralienReport">The Gralien Report on Twitter</a>, and <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.facebook.com/GralienReport">‘Like’ us on Facebook</a>. For more from beyond the fringe, <a href="https://www.gralienreport.com/x">subscribe to Gralien X</a> for just $7 a month, and receive additional weekly podcasts, the monthly Gralien Enigmas, and other quality content from the bunker.<br>