Monthly Archives: June 2009

Cryonics Training Austin, Texas, July 25 and 26

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Shannon Vyff

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 … Continue reading →

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ACD-CPR & the rise of the machine?

Posted on June 28, 2009 by Mike Darwin

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 … Continue reading →

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Two useful new respiratory products

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Mike Darwin

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 … Continue reading →

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Buried alive?

Posted on June 10, 2009 by Aschwin de Wolf

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 … Continue reading →

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Hans Reichenbach on evolution

Posted on June 6, 2009 by Aschwin de Wolf

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 … Continue reading →

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