[CNN] 69-year-old Dutchman starts legal bid to become 20 years younger

KingCheetah · Nov 9, 2018

I'm just happy I immediately knew the source of this information.

jcf · Nov 9, 2018

Os Trigonum said: ↑

this guy is still in the news

"Ratelband says his legal appeal is consistent with other forms of personal transformation that are gaining acceptance and government recognition in the Netherlands and around the world.

" 'With this free(dom) of choice, choice of name, freeness of gender, I want to have my own age. I want to control myself,' he said Thursday.

"Ratelband says he wants to avoid age discrimination in society — especially on dating websites."

Only question I have is whether he's older or younger than @Deckard

https://pix11.com/2018/11/08/whats-in-a-number-man-69-seeks-legal-age-change-to-49

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That's pretty good for 69.

ThatBoyNick · Nov 9, 2018

Lmao.

Os Trigonum · Nov 14, 2018

more thoughtful coverage seems to be emerging about this case

http://thefederalist.com/2018/11/13...s-birth-certificate-say-hes-20-years-younger/

Pole · Nov 14, 2018

But why? His age is such an awesome number.

Gdaliya · Nov 14, 2018

I'm a bit late here but the main reason this story got big at least in Holland and Belgium is beacuse of the fact that the guy is semi famous there.

I don't really know enough about the American celebrity world to compare him to someone but i'm sure you know someone who's famous beacuse of some weird things and from time to time say or do something controversial.

If i remember correctly he even dubbed some characters to dutch in animated movies.

Andre0087 · Nov 14, 2018

So who's gonna be the first to identify as a german shepherd? This IS getting pretty ridiculous...

Os Trigonum · Nov 30, 2018

" 'Chronological age isn't how old we really are. It's a superficial number," said professor David Sinclair, co-director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging at Harvard Medical School."

insert Science b****! gif here

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/30/health/live-longer-biological-age-intl/index.html

You have two ages, chronological and biological. Here's why it matters
By Samantha Bresnahan, CNN

Updated 5:00 AM ET, Fri November 30, 2018

(CNN) Reminiscent of a scene from "The Social Network," the whiteboard in researcher and professor Morgan Levine's Yale Medical School office is covered in a series of letters and numbers. She clicks the red cap back onto the dry erase marker and steps back to admire her work.

In front of her, the equation stretches across multiple lines, taking up much of the surface. This algorithm represents a new way of thinking about age.

"In my lab, we work on a lot of different types of aging measures," Levine said. "One of the most recent ones is based on blood measures you get at your normal doctor's appointment. We basically take those and combine them using different algorithms to get what we call someone's phenotypic age or biological age."
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