Even though I spent the last week working on some fiction writing, I have been mulling over ways to find the words to review _The Longevity Project_ which I finished up just a little over 2 weeks ago. It is a new release, so if you haven't read it yet I recommend you put it on your short list if you'd like to be around to see your eighth decade or more. The book is as fascinating as it is insightful.
In short it is the sum of the discoveries that have come out of an eighty year long study of individuals chosen in youth for their academic performance. What followed was a lifetime of detailed records of their lives which have now been used to try and discover why some lived to be 80, 90, even over 100 years old, while others winked so much earlier.
