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Bristol academic cracks Voynich code, solving century-old mystery of medieval text
A University of Bristol academic has succeeded where countless cryptographers, linguistics scholars and computer programs have failed—by cracking the code of the 'world's most mysterious text', the Voynich manuscript.
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Will we ever be able to freeze time?
Stasis is a way of pausing physical and chemical processes – including those of life. It could be a way for us to save the critically ill, or allow ultra-long space missions. By Peter Ray Allison.
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Scientists could one day make humans immortal
On Jan. 12, 1967, James Bedford, a psychology professor at Glendale College in California who had just died of cancer, took his first step toward coming back to life. On that day, the professor became the first person ever frozen in cryonic suspension, embedded in liquid nitrogen at minus-321 degrees Fahrenheit.
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A “Post-Verbal” World
I was walking with a friend recently, and we were discussing the limitations of language, especially in trying to explain complex concepts like philosophy, a deep experience, or a new idea. In short, on the topic of language, what we were discussing was just how clumsy verbal or written communication is in spreading what exists in one head into another — that, instead of transmutation of a concept or idea, like how a cold might spread, communicating an idea or viewpoint through language is actually quite difficult and oftentimes impossible.
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Cryogenically frozen brains will be 'woken up' and transplanted in donor bodies within three years, claims surgeon
People who have had their brains cryogenically frozen could be 'woken up' within three years, a pioneering Italian surgeon has claimed. Professor Sergio Canavero, Director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, is aiming to carry out the first human head transplant within 10 months and then wants to begin trials on brain transplants.
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants to boost the brain to keep up with AI
Serial entrepreneur Elon Musk has a new company – yes, another one – focused on developing the capabilities of the brain through technological..
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Dying girl convinces judge to let her body be frozen
A judge in the U.K. approves a teenage girl's dying wish that she be frozen, in the hopes that she can be brought back to life and cured of her cancer in the future.
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Would we want to regenerate brains of patients who are clinically dead?
A newly registered trial aims to research reanimating brain dead people. But even if it works, it's not clear who the new person would be. By Anders Sandberg. (May 10, ’16)
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If cryonics suddenly worked, we’d need to face the fallout
If we could actually cryogenically preserve people for years – or even centuries – what would it feel like for those individuals to wake up? By Rachel Nuwer.
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Scientists take a step closer to ETERNAL LIFE as they PRESERVE and REVIVE brain
In a step towards eternal life, researchers from 21st Century Medicine (21CM) managed to freeze the brain of a rabbit using a technique known as Aldehyde-stabilized cryopreservation (ASC). The team, led by recent Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate Robert McIntyre, wrote in a press release: "Using a combination of ultrafast chemical fixation and cryogenic storage, it is the first demonstration that near perfect, long-term...
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Cryopreservation Breakthrough: We Just Preserved an Entire Brain Down to the Last Neuron
Researchers have successfully preserved a rabbit brain using a new method of cryopreservation that focuses on memory storage.
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The Small Mammal Brain Preservation Prize Has Been Won
The Brain Preservation Foundation (BPF) announced that the Small Mammal Brain Preservation Prize has officially been won. The spectacular result achieved by 21st Century Medicine researchers provides the first demonstration that near-perfect, long-term structural preservation of an intact mammalian brain is achievable. A team from 21st Century Medicine, spearheaded by recent MIT graduate Robert McIntyre, has discovered a way to preserve the delicate neural circuits of an intact rabbit brain...
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The False Science of Cryonics
What the nervous system of the roundworm tells us about freezing brains and reanimating human minds.
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I freeze people's brains for a living
My own interests in cryonics are a messy mish-mash of different motives. I read some magazine article by Max More back when he was starting the Extropians in the mid-1990s. Then a book came out, The Engines of Creation, about nanotechnology. I’m a very hands-on thinker and am drawn to three-dimensional, mechanical-type things, which is why I went into Otolaryngology. For me, cryopreservation was an obvious mechanical problem. You’ve got molecules; why not lock them in place so that...
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