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Who wants to live forever? In this week’s Meeting Monday, Joel Cohen (APS 1994), applied mathematician, discusses the possibilities of the human lifespan in his talk “Is a Limit to Length of Human Life Imminent?” Watch the full November 2013 talk here: https://bit.ly/4tdpjja
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