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The Challenge of Aging – Interview with Aubrey de Grey
Written by Manouchehr Shamsrizi
Aubrey de Grey is one of the world’s foremost voices on bio-gerontology. He may also be the only gerontologist whose work MIT would pay to see proven wrong; the university’s Technology Review has offered a prize to anyone who disproves his theories. Dr. de Grey was a scientist at Cambridge […]
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Creating a Common Future: The Asian–European Young Leaders Forum – Day 2
Written by Anuja Upadhyay
The second day of the Forum on 31 October got off to an early start with a brief introduction to the Asia Programme launched this year by the Bertelsmann Stiftung. Europe sees Asia as an economic power and bringing the two regions together by increasing knowledge and understanding between them will […]
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Demography: Driver of Innovation
Written by Thiess Petersen
Ageing populations is a global trend that is of utter importance for developed regions like Europe. However, other regions like Africa or South America will have older populations in the upcoming decades as well. One of the most important questions for ageing societies all over the world is: can we […]
