This is a tribute to one of BIPT’s favorite scientists, Aubrey DeGray.  Ruthlessly rational, obsessively optimistic, and ferociously focused --- yes SIR, Aubrey is an evolved mammal.  His goal is nothing less than human immortality.  No matter how you feel about that, his work needs to be considered if you’re a human on Earth, because we could be looking at radically altering the entire game rules of human life, and that, in the immortal words of our president, is “probably kinda important”.

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In which we examine the life, the research, and the latest project of Italian scientist Maurizio Montalbini: he’s putting himself into a cave for three years.  We find out why, we get the juicy details....and oh yeah, we give him mad props.

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Got to sit down for many hours this evening with a 2nd edition hardbound copy of Manly P. Hall’s book “Encyclopedic outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic, and Rosicrucian symbolical philosophy”, which is now published as “The Secret Teachings of All Ages”.  His knowledge is without parallel and his writing is really beautiful stuff.  This is a small collection of connected excerpts for the interested reader to pursue at their leisure.

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A look through one of the most remarkable and weird little collections on the planet.  The Museum of Jurassic Technology defies categorization and rewards a closer look.

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A mathematician who hated sleep, was addicted to coffee and methamphetamine, saw equations pre-written on blank paper, and referred to God as the “Supreme Fascist”—what’s not to love?

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