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Life extension
Life extension: efforts to slow or reverse biological aging to prolong human lifespan. Key interventions: calorie restriction, rapamycin, metformin, senolytics, NAD+ precursors, partial reprogramming; no intervention yet proven to extend maximum human lifespan.
Life Goes On (TV series)
Life Goes On: ABC family drama (1989–1993, 4 seasons, 83 episodes), first major network series with a lead character with Down syndrome, Chris Burke as Corky Thacher; theme song Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da; later HIV storyline with Chad Lowe.
Life Goes This Way
La vita va così (Life Goes This Way) is Riccardo Milani's 2025 Italian comedy, opening film of the 20th Rome Film Festival, inspired by shepherd Ovidio Marras, who refused to sell his Sardinian coastal land; it earned 6.9 million euros.
Life Guards (United Kingdom)
The Life Guards, senior regiment of the British Army within the Household Cavalry, founded from Charles II's exile bodyguard (1658-1660), armoured reconnaissance with Ajax plus daily Horse Guards ceremonial, scarlet tunics, nicknamed Cheesemongers.
Life Hill Gayi
Life Hill Gayi (लाइफ हिल गयी) is a 2024 Hindi Hotstar Specials comedy series, directed by Prem Mistry, in which siblings Dev (Divyenndu) and Kalki (Kusha Kapila) race to revive their grandfather's failing Uttarakhand hotel; six episodes premiered 9 August 2024.
Life history theory
Life history theory, a branch of evolutionary ecology, explains how natural selection shapes schedules of growth, reproduction, survival, and death through trade-offs, modeled with the Euler-Lotka equation and tested in experimental evolution.
Life imitating art
Life imitating art, or anti-mimesis, is the claim that life and nature copy art rather than the reverse, famously asserted by Oscar Wilde in The Decay of Lying (1889) against the classical Platonic-Aristotelian doctrine of mimesis.
Life imprisonment
Life imprisonment, or life without parole, is a criminal sentence keeping a convicted person in prison for life, increasingly used instead of the death penalty.
Life imprisonment in England and Wales
Life imprisonment in England and Wales: mandatory for murder, discretionary for other serious offences. Covers the tariff system, whole life orders, Parole Board release, the Vinter ECHR ruling, and population statistics.
Life imprisonment in Norway
Life imprisonment in Norway (livstidsstraff): a formal penalty from the 1842 Criminal Code, rarely used, abolished in 1981 and replaced by a 21-year maximum; forvaring, indefinite preventive detention extendable by five years, now serves as the informal life sentence.
Life imprisonment in the United States
Life imprisonment in the United States covers parole-eligible life terms, life without parole (LWOP), and virtual life sentences. 194,803 prisoners serve life terms; 56,245 serve LWOP, concentrated in Florida, California, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and Michigan.
Life in a Northern Town
"Life in a Northern Town" is the 1985 debut single by the Dream Academy, written by Gilbert Gabriel and Nick Laird-Clowes, produced with David Gilmour, a Nick Drake dedication that hit No. 7 in the US.
Life in a Year
Life in a Year (2020) is an American romantic drama directed by Mitja Okorn, starring Jaden Smith and Cara Delevingne; Daryn gives his terminally ill girlfriend a lifetime of experiences in her final year, released on Prime Video November 27, 2020.
Life in a... Metro
Life in a... Metro (लाइफ इन अ मेट्रो) is a 2007 Hindi drama directed by Anurag Basu, produced by Ronnie Screwvala for UTV, interweaving nine Mumbai characters' stories of infidelity and love, with music by Pritam and the on-screen Metro band.
Life in Hell
Life in Hell is Matt Groening's weekly black-and-white comic strip (1977-2012, 1,669 installments) featuring rabbits Binky, Sheba, and Bongo plus the gay couple Akbar and Jeff; declining to sell it to Fox, Groening created The Simpsons instead.
Life in Pieces
Life in Pieces is a CBS single-camera family sitcom created by Justin Adler, airing 2015–2019 in four seasons and 79 episodes. Each episode tells four standalone short stories about the Short family, starring James Brolin, Dianne Wiest, and Colin Hanks.
Life in the Atacama
Life in the Atacama was a NASA-funded project, running from 2003 to 2005, in which autonomous rovers searched for microbial life in Chile's Atacama Desert as a test bed for future life-detection missions to Mars.
Life insurance
Life insurance, also called life assurance, is a contract in which an insurer pays a death benefit to named beneficiaries in exchange for premiums, in term or permanent forms.
Life Insurance Corporation
The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is a government-owned Indian life insurer created in 1956 by amalgamating private insurers, holding the largest market share of first-year premium.
Life Is a Dream
Life Is a Dream (La vida es sueño) is a 1636 three-act tragicomedy by Pedro Calderón de la Barca in which Polish prince Segismundo, imprisoned over a horoscope, learns prudence; noted for its free-will themes, famous soliloquy, and many adaptations.
Life Is a Highway
Life Is a Highway is a 1991 Tom Cochrane song from Mad Mad World, No. 1 in Canada and No. 6 on the Hot 100, better known through Rascal Flatts' 8x Platinum 2006 Cars cover.
Life Is a Long Quiet River
La vie est un long fleuve tranquille (Life Is a Long Quiet River), 1988 French satirical comedy by Étienne Chatiliez; baby-swap between bourgeois Le Quesnoys and working-class Groseilles; about 4 million admissions and four Césars.
Life Is Beautiful
Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella), 1997 Italian comedy-drama by Roberto Benigni with Nicoletta Braschi and Giorgio Cantarini; a father pretends a concentration camp is a game; won Cannes Grand Prize and three 1999 Oscars.
Life Is Beautiful (2012 film)
Life Is Beautiful (Telugu: లైఫ్ ఈజ్ బ్యూటిఫుల్) is Sekhar Kammula's 2012 Telugu coming-of-age drama set in Hyderabad's Sunshine Colony, starring five debutantes plus Amala Akkineni, who won Filmfare and CineMAA Best Supporting Actress.
Life Is Beautiful (2022 film)
Life Is Beautiful (인생은 아름다워) is a 2022 South Korean musical drama directed by Choi Kook-hee, billed as Korea's first jukebox musical film and starring Ryu Seung-ryong and Yum Jung-ah.
Life Is Beautiful (Larry June, 2 Chainz and the Alchemist album)
Life Is Beautiful is a 2025 collaborative rap album by Larry June, 2 Chainz, and producer the Alchemist, released February 7, 2025 via EMPIRE; the Alchemist's second album with Larry June after The Great Escape and 2 Chainz's first since leaving Def Jam.
Life Is Good (Nas album)
Life Is Good is Nas's tenth studio album, released July 17, 2012 on Def Jam; produced mainly by No I.D. and Salaam Remi, it covers his divorce from Kelis and fatherhood, scored 81 on Metacritic.
Life Is Peachy
Life Is Peachy is Korn's second studio album, released October 15, 1996 on Immortal/Epic, produced by Ross Robinson. It peaked at number 3 on the Billboard 200 with 106,000 first-week US sales, went RIAA platinum in December 1997, and features Chino Moreno on "Wicked".
Life Is Strange
Life Is Strange (2015) is Dontnod Entertainment's five-episode narrative adventure published by Square Enix, following Max Caulfield's time-rewind power, Chloe Price, and the Rachel Amber mystery in Arcadia Bay; it won the 2016 BAFTA for Story and spawned a franchise.
Life Is Strange (TV series)
Life Is Strange (TV series) is an upcoming Prime Video live-action adaptation of the 2015 Don't Nod game, showrun by Charlie Covell, starring Tatum Grace Hopkins and Maisy Stella, filmed in 2026.