The New York office of the International Longevity Center held their 10th annual Age Boom Academy earlier this month. Interesting tidbits picked up from this year’s event include:

• According to George Martin, professor of pathology at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine, a botanist defines aging as "everything that happens from the beginning of
  development until death" and a biologist
  defines it as "the decline that starts after organisms reach maturity".
• According to Steven Austad, a biology professor at the University of
  Texas’s Health Science Centre, researchers use tiny worms, fruit flies and mice for approximately 90% of aging research.
• According to Niz Barzilai, director of research at the Institute for Aging’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine, only about one in 10,000 people lives to be a centenarian.
• According to John Rowe, professor of public health at Columbia University, an ‘aging society’ is one in which there are more old people than young.