The Lord of Ten Thousand Years: Qin Shi Huang and the Quest for Immortality

Our species is obsessed with immortality. Given our limited time on this Earth, who can blame us? As such, many great men and women throughout history have sought to halt or postpone death through both supernatural and scientific means. But of them, perhaps none did so quite as intensely as the first emperor of China. Join me this week for a tale of political intrigue, assassination attempts, and paranoia and how one of the most powerful figures in history sought the recipe for the elixir of eternal life!