Cryonics Training Austin, Texas, July 25 and 26
Alcor is having a Texas (TX) Readiness Team Training this July 25th and 26th.
This training is free and open to Cryonics Institute members as well.
July 25th 2009, 10:00am to 5:00pm, lunch provided at 1:00pm
July 26th 2009, 10:00am to 3:00pm, lunch provided at 1:00pm
All TX area cryoncists are encouraged to attend to learn more about the [...]
ACD-CPR & the rise of the machine?
If conventional cardiopulmonary support (CPS) in cryonics is difficult to perform adequately, and impossible to sustain for more than brief periods (30-60 min) before exhausting even a 3-man standby team, this is even more the case for active compression-decompression CPS (ACD-CPS) using the ResQPump (formerly the Ambu CardioPump). Even in the conventional medical setting of [...]
Two useful new respiratory products
Sometime in the 1780s the French scientist Jacques Charles’s noted that at constant pressure, the volume of a given mass of an ideal gas increases or decreases by the same factor as its temperature on the absolute temperature scale. Or, put more simply, the gas expands as the temperature increases. This is known [...]
Buried alive?
According to this news item the Alcor Life Extension Foundation is taking legal action against the brother and sister of an Alcor member who “denied the foundation’s request for his body and didn’t notify them of their brother’s death until months after he was buried.” Although some may question the wisdom of pursuing this case [...]
A positive-sum game against nature
Whenever there is a major economic event (a rapid decline of stock prices, a spike in the price of oil, high unemployment, etc.) the media can be counted on to feature a person who was predicting these events all along. This should not be surprising because there are so many professional economists and commentators who [...]
Hans Reichenbach on evolution
Hans Reichenbach’s The Rise of Scientific Philosophy is among the most accessible and illuminating statements of logical empiricism. Although the book can be read as an introduction to philosophy, the central message of the work is that most of what constitutes philosophy is either (outdated) pre-scientific speculation or incoherent reasoning.
One of the most powerful chapters [...]
