Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by long-time friend and aerospace engineer, Stefanos Axios.  They have a spirited and comprehensive discussion, spanning issues including:

--Why life seems to go by more quickly as you get older...

--How "free radicals" and "anti-oxidants" can protect you from aging..

--Why we should stop treating people when they're sick and start treating them when they're healthy...

--How you can predict someone's age just by looking at their hand...

--Why we should continue investing trillions of dollars in exploring the observable universe...

--Whether we should be worried about Earth becoming uninhabitable within our lifetimes...

--What exactly is keeping us from sending people to colonize Mars today...

--What makes the United States Federal Reserve arguably the most powerful body in the world...

--Why Americans should care about our country's insurmountable national debt...

--Whether middle-class Americans should be concerned about a recession or depression in their lifetimes, and finally...

--How you are losing money by keeping all of your savings squared away in a bank account.

 

Segments:

Aging: 3:45

Space Exploration: 29:21

Money: 1:03:43

 

Where to Go to Get More Information:

1. Life Expectancy Trends Over Time

https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy

2. Leading Causes of Death in the U.S. in 2019

https://www.healthline.com/health/leading-causes-of-death

3. Free Radicals and Anti-Oxidants

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3249911/

4. Resveratrol in Wine

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0540/525760cf05d3a245d0b8468fc49f8a3e7bce.pdf

5. The Human Longevity Project (Peter Diamandis)

https://www.humanlongevity.com/

6. Homo Deus, by Yuval Noah Harari

7. Nano-Tech in Our Bloodstreams

https://interestingengineering.com/nanobots-will-flowing-body-2030

8. Intermittent Fasting and Aging

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321690.php

9. NASA's Annual Budget

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA

10. "The Uninhabitable Earth," by David Wallace Wells

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html?gtm=bottom

11. Mars Colonization Timeline

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-mars-plan-timeline-2018-10

12. Elon Musk: SpaceX, Tesla, and the Quest for A Fantastic Future, by Ashlee Vance

13. About Mars One

https://www.mars-one.com/

14. NASA Study Comparing Astronaut to His Twin on Earth (Mark and Scott Kelly)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/science/scott-mark-kelly-twins-space-nasa.html

15. Hyperinflation in Germany, 1922-1923

https://mashable.com/2016/07/27/german-hyperinflation/

16. Different Forms of Currency Worldwide (World Atlas)

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/how-many-currencies-are-in-the-world.html

17. About The Federal Reserve

https://www.federalreserve.gov/

18. U.S. National Debt in Real-Time

https://www.usdebtclock.org/