The Intelligence: searching for the elixir of life
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Scientists are making considerable progress in the race to slow the ageing process of our cells, and in turn, our bodies. But what would living for longer actually mean for the world? How government legislation and impatient consumers are forcing the advertising industry to adapt (13:19). And, the story behind a famous, 200-year-old Christmas poem (21:29).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm currently out of office. |
| 0:04.4 | An article I read recently said we're more relaxed and more productive after a good break. |
| 0:14.4 | So I've gone to Barbados for a month for science. Yours, Toby. Take your holiday as seriously as British |
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| 1:00.8 | The Economist |
| 1:06.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm Oire Ogunbei. |
| 1:11.6 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:13.6 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:22.6 | Ads. We all hate them. |
| 1:25.6 | We're all trying to skip them even if it costs us. |
| 1:28.3 | It's forcing the entire industry to change, and everyone, from the economist to the tech giants, has got to get creative. |
| 1:36.3 | And if your notion of Christmas includes stockings hung by the chimney with care, well, you've got a 19th century American activist to thank. |
| 1:47.0 | We look at a partisan poem that standardized and cemented |
| 1:50.0 | what seemed like ancient traditions. |
| 1:57.0 | But first... A slow and sometimes cruel decline. |
| 2:13.6 | Cells that year by year replicate less and less well. |
| 2:18.3 | Pains that arise, return, worsen, become constant. |
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