Long for This World, Jonathan Weiner
Long for This World, Jonathan Weiner
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Long for This World
The Strange Science of Immortality

Author: Jonathan Weiner

Narrator: Jim Meskimen

Unabridged: 8 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 06/22/2010

Categories: Nonfiction, Science

Synopsis

“[A] searching and surprisingly witty look at the scientific odds against tomorrow.”
—Timothy Ferris

Jonathan Weiner—winner of the  Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and one of the most distinguished popular science writers in America—examines “the strange science of immortality” in Long for This World. A fast-paced, sure-to-astonish scientific adventure from “one of our finest science journalists” (Jonah Lehrer), Weiner’s Long for This World addresses the ageless question, “Is there a secret to eternal youth?” And has it, at long last, been found?

About Jonathan Weiner

Jonathan Weiner is one of the most distinguished popular-science writers in the country: his books have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Slate, Time, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Scientific American, Smithsonian, and many other newspapers and magazines, and he is a former editor at The Sciences. His books include The Beak of the Finch; Time, Love, Memory; and His Brother's Keeper. He lives in New York, where he teaches science writing at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Will

The most persistent aspect of this intriguing book is the questions it raises. Why do we age? Can we do anything to halt or at least slow the aging process? What might be the implications of extending our time on Earth? Jonathan Weiner builds his look at the science of immortality around Aubrey de G......more

Goodreads review by Greg

Jonathan Weiner is one of those stealthily brilliant science writers--he doesn't publish that often, but when he does, it's a big deal. There is a sense of wonder at the heart of a lot of what he writes--with The Beak of the Finch, which won the Pulitzer Prize, it was that evolution could be documen......more

Goodreads review by David

While this is an interesting book, it did not engage me fully. The first part of the book is historical--lyrical even--and the middle third of the book is really about the science of lengthening life. The last third returns to a lyrical--well, I wouldn't go that far, I'd say biographical. So much of......more

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