Cryonics Magazine- Fasting Weakens Cancer in Mice
- Scientists Eavesdrop Inside the Mind
- Discovery May Provide Insight into Brain Cell Aging
- New Evidence Keeping Brain Sharp and Active Wards off Alzheimer’s
- New Discoveries in Cell Aging
- Eye Trials Give Hope for Stem Cells
- How Stem Cell Implants Help Heal Traumatic Brain Injury
- Victory For Crowdsourced Biomolecule Design
- New Approach to Preventing Fatal Septic Shock
- Alzheimer’s Damage Occurs Early
- Fight Aging!
- Chronosphere
- Liquid Assisted Pulmonary Cooling in Cardiopulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation, Part 2
- Liquid Assisted Pulmonary Cooling in Cardiopulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation – Part 1
- Cryonics “Castle”
- Doing the Time Warp
- Interventive Gerontology 1.0.02: First, Try to Make it to the Mean: Diet as a life extending tool, Part 3
- Interventive Gerontology 1.0.02: First, Try to Make it to the Mean: Diet as a life extending tool, Part 2
- Interventive Gerontology 1.0.02: First, Try to Make it to the Mean: Diet as a life extending tool, Part 1.
- Fortune and Men’s Eyes
- Interventive Gerontology 101.01: The Basics
- The Kurzwild Man in the Night
Author Archives: Ben Best
The 2011 Calorie Restriction Society Conference
On October 27-29 I attended CR VII, the 2011 Calorie Restriction Society Conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Members of the Calorie Restriction Society restrict their calories while maintaining adequate nutrition as a means of extending their lifespan (or improving … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Health
Tagged Ben Best, Brenda Peters, Caloric Restriction, Calorie Restriction, Calorie Restriction Society, Cryonics, Luigi Fontana, Peter Voss, Shannon Vyff, Stephen Spindler
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Fifth SENS Conference
August 31 to September 4, 2011 I attended fifth biannual SENS Conference (SENS5, Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. People who attend SENS conferences are the demographic that is the most receptive to cryonics … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Rejuvenation
Tagged Aging Biomarkers, Alcor, Aubrey de Grey, Ben Best, Cryonics Institute, GADD45, Gunther Kletetschka, Maria Konovalenko, Max More, Nuclear DNA, Rodolfo Goya, SENS
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The 2011 Cryobiology Conference
July 24-27 I attended the 2011 annual Society for Cryobiology conference in Corvallis, Oregon. A number of the first presentations were concerned with means to *avoid* cryopreservation. Room temperature storage is much less expensive and troublesome, and improves ease of … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Science
Tagged Arthur Rowe, Chilling Injury, Cryobiology, John Crowe, Microtubules, Peter Mazur, Society for Cryobiology Conference
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Teens & Twenties 2011 Gathering
On the evening of Thursday, May 19 and on Friday, May 20, I attended the 2011 (2nd annual) Teens & Twenties young cryonicists gathering which preceded the Suspended Animation, Inc. conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Teens & Twenties gathering … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Ben Best, Bill Faloon, Cairn Idun, Life Extension Foundation, Saul Kent, Teens and Twenties, Young Cryonicists
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Comments on the book YOUNIVERSE by Robert Ettinger
Robert Ettinger‘s book Youniverse: Toward a Self-Centered Philosophy of Immortalism and Cryonics is a book containing many insights and deep thoughts, yet has such an informal writing style that many readers might not take it seriously. I know of no … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Atheism, Cryonics, Determinism, Free Will, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophy, Physician-Assisted Suicide, Religion, Robert Ettinger
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October 2010 Cryonics Symposium in Germany
On the first weekend of October, 2010 I was an invited speaker at “Applied Cryobiology – Scientific Symposium on Cryonics” held in Goslar, Germany: http://www.biostase.de/us/symposium2010.html. The meeting was the first effort by the German Society for Applied Biostasis (DGAB) to … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Science
Tagged Bioethics, Cryoprotectant Toxicity, David Styles, Eucrio, FM-2030, Peter Gouras, Robert Ettinger, Robert Ettinger Medal
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Free will versus determinism as it relates to cryonics
Excerpt from “Ben Best – A Case for Free Will AND Determinism” Determinism implies materialism — implies that consciousness is material. Cryonics is based on the premise that the preservation of the fine structure of the brain at low temperature … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Neuroscience, Science
Tagged Ben Best, Compatibilism, Cryonics, Determinism, Free Will, Roger Penrose
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Cryonics Oregon june meeting report
About 35 people attended the Cryonics Oregon-sponsored debate on the subject of SENS. Chana de Wolf was mistress of ceremonies. A show of hands indicated that the great majority of those attending were signed-up cryonicists. There was a sizeable contingent … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Science
Tagged Aschwin de Wolf, Aubrey de Grey, Ben Best, Biogerontology, Chana de Wolf, Cryonics, James Swayze, Nanomedicine, SENS
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Fourth Asset Preservation Group meeting
On the weekend of April 23-25 I attended a meeting of the cryonics Asset Preservation Group held at the estate of Ken Weiss near Gloucester, Massachusetts I will try to give a few brief summaries without going into detail about every presentation. Lori Rhodes, … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Boudewijn Cabot, Igor Levenberg, Ken Weiss, Lori Rhodes, Marvin Minsky, Mike Perry, Society for Universal Immortalism, Terasem, Timeship, Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking, VSED
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Teens & twenties cryonicist event 2010
This past weekend (Friday, January 8, 2010 to Sunday, January 10, 2010) I attended a meeting for cryonicists in their teens & twenties near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The event was funded by Bill Faloon and the Life Extension Foundation. Cairn … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Alcor, Bill Falloon, Cairn Idun, Cryonics, Cryonics Institute, Curtis Henderson, KrioRus, Steve Valentine, Suspended Animation, Timeship
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The 2009 SENS Conference
Once a year I try to attend at least one biogerontology conference. Although I attend biogerontology conferences out of personal interest, and at my own expense, they are the most fruitful grounds for promoting cryonics I have found, and this … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Science
Tagged Aubrey de Grey, Ben Best, Cryobiology, Cryonics, Cryonics Institute, Cryoprotectant Toxicity, KrioRus, SENS
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Jehovah’s witnesses and cryonics
When I was in New Zealand in 1999, CI Member Cam Christie told me that one of his co-workers was against cryonics because she was a Jehovah’s Witness and her church had a position against cryonics. I recently found an … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Death
Tagged Ben Best, Cryonics, Immortality, Jehovah's Witnesses, Religion
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