in 1999, my wife and I attended a lecture from a Dutch scientist (could have been from anywhere), about the relationship between longevity and the length of your telomeres. Never mind what telomeres are, but when we read the masthead on the little flyers (librettos?) they handed out, we discovered that this scientist was receiving grant money from Larry Ellison and his family's philanthropic fund... There are a lot of other details about aging and longevity, but the chances are, that sonofabitch is going to outlive all of us.