Vivian Florian plays the piano at a Valentine's Day party at the Las Palmas Senior Citizens Center February 13, 2006 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
The 2011 Ideas Festival, sponsored by the Aspen Institute and Atlantic Magazine, gathered scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers for a week in late June and early July. MPR's Midday broadcast several of the presentations.
Can we reverse aging?
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Thomas Rando, the director of the Stanford Center of Longevity and professor at Stanford University's School of Medicine, speaks at the Aspen Ideas Festival about his research into the biology of aging. He looks at how genetics or the environment can affect aging, and if the aging process can be manipulated.
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