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I'm your host David Stein. Today is episode 484. It's titled How to Live Forever, or at least a very long time.

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The Prell often jokes that someday I'm going to run out of topics to talk about.

Topics arrive as long as I'm engaged in the world.

Researching, learning, visiting with people.

Usually I have several topics doing in the background,

but occasionally, like this week,

the topic I was going to discuss just isn't ready.

In that case, it was on world population.

It turns out July 11th is World Population Day, which I didn't know existed,

but it's also the day the United Nations releases its latest projections

for the global population in the decades ahead.

And since it's been two years, since last release I thought well I'm going to

wait to talk about those trends until after we have new data. For decades now I

have tracked notes on what I happen to be reading. It could be a study from an

academic journal, article from a newspaper, books I'm reading. I used to use a wiki called social text and then they went under and then I used

Evernote for a while. For the last four years I've used Rome research and so when I

can't find something to talk about I'll go into Rome research

and look at articles I have saved recently and see if there's a theme and it turns

out there was actually a theme that we could call how to live a very long time and to do so happily.

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