Entries Tagged as 'cryonics'

Monday, July 25th, 2011

Robert Ettinger, founder of the cryonics movement, dies at 92

Robert C. W. Ettinger, a physics teacher and science fiction writer who believed death is only for the unprepared and unimaginative, died July 23 at his home in Clinton Township, Mich. He was 92 and had suffered declining health in recent weeks, said his son David, who could not specify a cause. “We’re obviously sad,” [...]

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Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Henry Markram and the Human Brain Project are in talks with EU for $1.61 billion to achieve human brain emulation by 2024

via nextbigfuture.com “Henry Markram, a neuroscientist at the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland, has assembled a team of nine top European scientists for the research effort to build a computer model of a human brain. The Human Brain Project is in discussion with the EU for a £1billion (US$1.61 billion) grant.” Hat tip to [...]

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Friday, January 14th, 2011

Alcor Life Extension Foundation Names Max More, PhD, as Chief Executive Officer

The Board of Directors of Alcor Life Extension Foundation announced on Dec. 24 that Dr. Max More, 46, has been named Chief Executive Officer effective Jan 1, 2011. An internationally recognized advocate of the effective and ethical use of technology for life extension and cryopreservation, Dr. More brings experience in running non-profit organizations, many years [...]

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Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Until Cryonics Do Us Part

There are ways of speaking about dying that very much annoy Peggy Jackson, an affable and rosy-cheeked hospice worker in Arlington, Va. She doesn’t like the militant cast of “lost her battle with,” as in, “She lost her battle with cancer.” She is similarly displeased by “We have run out of options” and “There is [...]

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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Frozen in time: How life insurance can make you immortal

The “average cryonicist is male with an extremely high intelligence level, and is often a mathematician or computer engineer,” Hoffman says. John Dedon, a principal in the trust, estate and tax planning practice of Washington, D.C.-area law firm Odin, Feldman and Pittleman, agrees that his cryogenic clients are smart and accomplished. “There’s a somewhat limited [...]

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Monday, May 10th, 2010

Frog awakens from winter freeze

via youtube.com Via Stephan Beauregard. Posted via web from crasch’s posterous

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Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Brain Preservation Technology Prize

“How far has brain preservation technology progressed in the intervening decades?” and “Exactly what level of brain preservation is necessary to have a reasonable chance of restoring a person?” A Brain Preservation Technology Prize has the unique ability to get the scientific community to start asking these questions. It can accomplish this purely by putting [...]

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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Fertility vs. Life Expectancy at birth

This is why I’m not worried about overpopulation due to life extension technology. Via Alex Lightman.

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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

The wedding of Katie Kirkpatrick

The story of Katie Kirkpatrick is simultaneously one of the sweetest and saddest I’ve ever read. This is why we need cryonics now.

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Friday, September 12th, 2008

Exploring Life Extension

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