SciShow Tangents

Aging

Episode Summary

Every millisecond of every day, you, everyone you know, every rock on the ground, every star in the sky... they're all aging. And podcasts are no exception. In fact, Tangents is hitting a milestone in its aging as we bring season 4 to a close with this episode! You can't hear the dull roar of time lurching ever onward if you're listening to a funny show, so come listen!

Episode Notes

Every millisecond of every day, you, everyone you know, every rock on the ground, every star in the sky... they're all aging. And podcasts are no exception. In fact, Tangents is hitting a milestone in its aging as we bring season 4 to a close with this episode! You can't hear the dull roar of time lurching ever onward if you're listening to a funny show, so come listen!

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[Trivia Question]

Epigenetic clock of dog years vs. human years

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/theres-new-better-formula-calculating-dog-years-180973575/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32619550/

[Fact Off]

Brown-Séquard and using testicle injections to reverse aging

https://archive.org/details/Brown-sequardC.-e.TheEffectProducedOnManBySubcutaneousInjectionsOfA

https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/140/5/1525/3760152

https://www.jci.org/articles/view/57089

Sperm aging/senescence in toads and other vertebrates

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0050820

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/683429

https://support.webb.uu.se/digitalAssets/52/a_52297-f_BeckyTREE.pdf

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21332857/

[Ask the Science Couch]

Causing/reversing aging in mice through epigenetics (ICE - inducible changes to epigenome)

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/loss-epigenetic-information-can-drive-aging-restoration-can-reverse

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)01570-7

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230115/The-loss-of-epigenetic-information-accelerates-the-aging-process.aspx

https://newatlas.com/biology/epigenetic-reboot-reverse-aging-extend-lifespan

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.04.522507v1

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2975-4

[Butt One More Thing]

C. elegans rapid senescence (kind of lactation)

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/930463

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25821-y