Why You Really Don’t Want the Perfect Body and How You Can Have It

The New York Times give us two things to think about, and both of them, coincidentally, emanate from the towers of Harvard. Up first is a book review of "The Case Against Perfection," which is written by Harvard philosophy professor Michael Sandel and which argues that steroids, growth hormones, genetic engineering and other enhancements “pose a threat to human dignity” and “diminish our humanity." Perfection may be something to think about, but it’s not something that Geezer  himself needs to worry about.
Neither is likelihood of attaining eternal youth (too late for that), the goal of Harvard researchers David Sinclair and Christoph Westphal. In this piece, the Times reports on their efforts to isolate the magic of resveratrol, (found in red wine and other plant products and believed to extend the
life span of mice by as much as 24 percent and the life span of other
animals, such as flies and fish, by as much as 59 percent) and put it in a pharmaceutical product.