Luba Vukonsky
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63 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
Luba Vukonsky’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Death instinct would mean that people would be happy to die after living long and healthy lives.
He went around looking for this death instinct.
Centenarians made it into the newspapers. So whenever he would see an article about an old person, he rushed to meet them and he wanted to ask them, you know, about if they wanted to die.
He went to this large French hospital, La Salpêtrière,
And most of them were poor because, you know, obviously a more wealthy elderly wouldn't make it there.
It probably must have been quite a sad place, you know, where all these people were brought to die and there was not much that could really be done for them.
He went around asking them what they wanted and he was hoping to find the death instinct. And he was really disappointed because even the sick old people, they didn't want to die. They wanted to get better.
He developed a whole philosophy that there was this big disharmony in the world, in nature, between the shortness of human life and people's desire to live.
This became for him like his new mission to free the world from this terrible affliction.
His lab gradually filled up with old animals of all sorts.
Meshinkov was very happy that he was still interested in females.
When he rode on... In public transportation, he would tell people how they should be careful about microbes. He boiled everything he ate, even strawberries and even peeled bananas. He thought that the skin probably didn't protect them well enough. And when he invited guests to restaurants, he asked to bring a burner and he sterilized the utensils.
He thought that the root of aging, that it all started in the intestines.
So Mashinkov thought that in the intestines, there are microbes that cause rotting and that the rotting is what really causes the deterioration of aging. The big question became how to fight that.
He learned that in Bulgaria, there is this entire population of centenarians in the mountains.
They ate lots of yogurt.
The lecture was called Old Age.
He was saying how in Europe Old people are miserable.
Because they're useless. And he said that people there say that old dogs can at least capture seals and old women can't even do that. He was painting a very sort of gruesome picture of old age.
He brought an old dog and a parrot. The dog was 17 and he looked very old and undecorated. And the parrot, who was 70... looked much younger than the dog.
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