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Cryonics, Death

Interview with Cryonics Institute president Ben Best

This is the first in a series of interviews with individuals in the life extension and cryonics movement. We start off with an interview with

August 6, 2008 by Aschwin de Wolf16 Min Reading
Cryonics, Death

Suspended animation is not cryonics

On the Immortality Institute cryonics forum, Alcor Board member and researcher Brian Wowk has posted some insightful comments on the difference between suspended animation and

August 6, 2008December 16, 2018 by Aschwin de Wolf3 Min Reading
Health, Neuroscience

Recent developments in the treatment of Alzheimer's

The full text of the Life Extension Foundation magazine article (August 2008) describing the use of Enbrel for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and announcing

August 5, 2008December 16, 2018 by Chana Phaedra1 Min Reading
Cryonics, Death

The history of scientific immortalism

Now online is Mike Perry’s article “Historical Steps Toward the Scientific Conquest of Death.” This article was previously published in 2003 in Physical Immortality, a

August 4, 2008December 16, 2018 by Aschwin de Wolf2 Min Reading
Cryonics, Death

Historical Steps Toward the Scientific Conquest of Death

Physical Immortality 1(1) 7-10 (3rd Q 2003) This article is adapted from Chapter 2 of my book, Forever for All, which includes references The eighteenth-century

August 4, 2008January 20, 2019 by Mike Perry21 Min Reading
Cryonics

Mike Darwin on obstacles to progress in cryonics

The blog dw2-0 reports on Mike Darwin’s recent ExtroBritannia talk in London: “Mike Darwin made the same connection at an utterly engrossing UKTA meeting this

August 3, 2008 by Aschwin de Wolf1 Min Reading
Cryonics

Mike Perry on the first cryonics case

James Bedford’s freezing in January 1967 is usually regarded as the first true cryonic suspension, done immediately after legal death under controlled conditions which, though

August 2, 2008 by Aschwin de Wolf1 Min Reading
Arts & Living, Cryonics

Arthur C. Clarke’s The Last Theorem

As mentioned in a previous contribution, Arthur C. Clark was no stranger to cryonics. The famous science fiction author once stated in a letter in

August 1, 2008December 16, 2018 by Veronique Struis1 Min Reading
Death, Society

Herbert Marcuse on the ideology of death

Although critical philosophers like Herbert Marcuse (1898 – 1979) are not known for their contributions to economics or analytic philosophy, Marcuse’s essay “The Ideology of

July 31, 2008 by Aschwin de Wolf3 Min Reading
Science, Society

Serendipity and drug discovery

The blog Soft Machines writes about a new opinion piece in the Financial Times by David Shaywitz and Nassim Nicholas Taleb on biomedical science and

July 31, 2008December 16, 2018 by Aschwin de Wolf1 Min Reading
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