In recognition of the new year and the steady march of time, our first Book Trailer of the Week for 2011 is this intriguing clip for Pulitzer Prize-winner Jonathan Weiner’s Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality. A 2010 NY Times Notable Book, this rollicking scientific adventure traces the history of longevity research while focusing on the controversial work of Aubrey de Grey, a bearded radical convinced humans will soon achieve life spans of thousands of years. Fast-paced and fascinating, Long for This World makes hard science understandable while asking, “Even if we could live forever, would we really want to?”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBuV_Arut8I]Book Trailer of the Week
January 7, 2011