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    Infant-Sized Teenager May Provide Key to Reversing the Aging Process

    Find Out How Old Your Body Is: Scientists Can Measure Your Actual Molecular Age

    Your Brain Starts Deteriorating By Age 27, Say Neuroscientists

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    06/25/09

    In reply to Infant-Sized Teenager May Provide Key to Reversing the Aging Process
    Great. I can hear the pedos now: "I thought she was 18, Your Honor".
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    06/25/09

    In reply to Infant-Sized Teenager May Provide Key to Reversing the Aging Process
    studies later revealed the mutation to be a result of exposure to the srike during her trip to hyperion.
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    06/25/09

    In reply to Infant-Sized Teenager May Provide Key to Reversing the Aging Process
    Have religious fanatics threated to burn her at the stake yet?
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    06/25/09

    @Kato3D: Wonder if people like her started the changeling myths?
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    06/25/09

    In reply to Infant-Sized Teenager May Provide Key to Reversing the Aging Process
    She is still able to learn on some basic level if she recognizes people. Presumably if one's brain stopped ageing at a more mature point, like 21 or some such, the learning ability would be more advanced too, perhaps even completely normal. So this doesn't mean you'll forever be the same person you were when you were chronologically 21, if you could somehow remain 21 forever through some treatment based on this strange condition. You would still learn, which means you would still change and develop as a person. Of course in the long run problems might still come up, but it would still buy you lots of time... perhaps time enough to see even those more difficult problems be solved. Honestly, if somehow it were possible to do this for adult human beings - and (this would be the even harder part, probably) without any severe side effects or illnesses - I'd gladly sign up. I don't look forward to growing older and older... There is far too much to do, and never enough time. :P
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    06/25/09

    @ParryLost: At this point, if they could get me back to 35, I'd take it!
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    06/25/09

    In reply to Infant-Sized Teenager May Provide Key to Reversing the Aging Process
    The sad thing is that people with this developmental handicap almost always turn to a life of crime.



    And another example
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    06/25/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: ... nightmare fuel.
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    06/25/09

    In reply to Infant-Sized Teenager May Provide Key to Reversing the Aging Process
    i'm pretty sure our brains reach full development around 21, so i highly doubt that if the aging process were reversed from 60-21, that there would be a loss of "wisdom" or anything.
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    06/25/09

    @borntohula: You must be 21 :)
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    06/25/09

    @SowndOfDeth: Well, it is true. Past around that age the brain is forever in steady decline in terms of learning capacity, and 'processing power' for want of a better term. 'Wisdom' is really about the accumulation of more knowledge and vast amounts of data-mining the connections between everything - if anything a 60 year old with the brain of a 21 year old would be far wiser than normal because they'd have the ability to grow wiser faster.
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    06/25/09

    @Waywocket: Yep, their data retrieval would remain strong, but they'd have years more experience to draw on.
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    06/25/09

    In reply to Infant-Sized Teenager May Provide Key to Reversing the Aging Process
    Hmmm...stop your body from aging and continue to live on at the physical and sexingest peak of your life or live on and gain wisdom as your body and libido slowly breaks down.

    Tough call.
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    06/25/09

    @YankBoffin: Not really. Presumably you'd continue to gain wisdom just by continuing to live, plus you'd have the energy to do something with it!
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    06/25/09

    In reply to Infant-Sized Teenager May Provide Key to Reversing the Aging Process
    attends school


    I'm sorry...what? I think I must have misheard you.

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    06/25/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Baby Geniuses 3 starring Jon Voight yet again.
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    06/25/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: do NOT go there!
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    06/25/09

    @alphanumeric1971:


    C'mon, lemme leech...

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    06/25/09

    In reply to Infant-Sized Teenager May Provide Key to Reversing the Aging Process
    Cool until you think about it. Then its really cool. I would give almost any thing to be 8 again. Summers seemed to last forever, every thing was funner, few responsibilities, hide and seek was easier. I am not seeing any any draw backs.


    oh and WOLVERINE IS A GIRL!!!!!!!!!! When do her bone claws come out?

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    06/25/09

    @LittleDragon: I'd rather just stay 22 and be in that cusp where I can get away with being immature, but at the same time I'm old enough to be taken seriously when needed. I'm 3 years past that. Then again, I'm mentally 5.
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    06/25/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: Zounds, CrashedPC just revealed his real age.
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    06/25/09

    @Smeagol92055: R.O.A.C.H.: That's right folks, I'm legal!
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    06/25/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: I wish I could still be 22 also... damn, it sucks to age... physically.


    @LittleDragon: Huh? I miss the Wolverine is a girl comment. Perhaps it's because I'm getting old. =/

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    06/25/09

    @CmdrHunt: Cuz apparently she can heal from anything.


    This kinda ties into X-men Babies, doesn't it?

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    06/25/09

    In reply to Infant-Sized Teenager May Provide Key to Reversing the Aging Process
    Great, now some people really will experience an Endless Summer as their 20 year old fratboy mind stays that way for 50 years.
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    06/25/09

    @crashedpc: Excuse me, this is a SF blog not a political blog.


    Oh, sorry, I thought you were talking about Sanford et al.

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    06/25/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Ohoho, I shall not fall into that trap.


    I was reminded of my college days, when someone actually told me, at the end of the Spring quarter, "DUDE, WE'RE GONNA MAKE THIS AN ENDLESS SUMMER!!!"


    All I could think was the temporal impossibilities as this trucker hat wearing chucklefuck clearly was lacking in certain cognizant abilities, and when he finally received his "Communications" Major, the most dramatic choice he would have to make in his life would be what Top100 radio station he should listen to while serving smoothies at Robek's.

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    06/25/09

    @crashedpc: ...or elected official. You forgot elected official.
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    06/25/09

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    Holy god. This is like "Jefty is Five." Anybody else read that story?
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    06/25/09

    In reply to Infant-Sized Teenager May Provide Key to Reversing the Aging Process
    Wow - that really sucks to be her.
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    06/25/09

    @El_Fez: Fortunately, she doesn't really know any different.


    Much harder to be those who love her.

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    06/25/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Yeah, she doesn't have the mental capacity for worry. She lives in the moment and has people who love her and make her happy. Her parents are the ones who deserve our sympathy.
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    03/20/09

    In reply to Your Brain Starts Deteriorating By Age 27, Say Neuroscientists
    I love lamp.
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    03/20/09

    In reply to Your Brain Starts Deteriorating By Age 27, Say Neuroscientists
    I've got 5 years - and I watch videos on Hulu :: I'm screwed.
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    03/20/09

    In reply to Your Brain Starts Deteriorating By Age 27, Say Neuroscientists
    I'd like to know how this applies to zombies? Does the brains 'flavor' change as we get older? This may explain why the undead seem to gravitate towards teens..
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    03/20/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: Sometimes though you want a lighter brain. You wouldn't go and eat a big, delicious, young, juicy...


    Sorry, started to drool. Where was I? Oh yes.


    Sometimes you want diet brain.

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