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Remarkable science: Living to 100 with Blue Zones author Dan Buettner
Armenistis village, Ikaria island, Aegean Sea, Greece, Europe. (Photo by: Giulio Andreini/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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This is the third installment of our podcast-only series Remarkable Science — conversations with scientists about their work, recorded in front of an audience at WBUR’s CitySpace venue in Boston. Listen to part I and II.
In this episode: Living to 100 with Blue Zones author Dan Buettner.
Journalist, author and National Geographic fellow Dan Buettner has spent more than a decade scouring the globe with a team of anthropologists, demographers and epidemiologists to understand what he calls Blue Zones — five places he has identified where people live the longest, healthiest lives.
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Hear more about Buettner’s work, and what he has uncovered about how ‘Blue Zone’ communities can live so long, below.
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