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	<title>Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics &#187; Science</title>
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		<title>Annotated bibliography of cryoprotectant toxicity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cryonics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brian Wowk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cryobiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cryoprotectant Toxicity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DMSO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethylene Glycol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glycerol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gregory Fahy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction Cryoprotectant toxicity should be distinguished from other mechanisms of cryopreservation injury such as chilling injury (injury produced by too low temperatures as such) and cold shock  (injury produced by rapid cooling). Cryoprotectant toxicity itself can again be divided into &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2012/01/08/annotated-bibliography-of-cryoprotectant-toxicity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The 2011 Cryobiology Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/08/11/the-2011-cryobiology-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Best</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cryonics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arthur Rowe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chilling Injury]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Crowe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peter Mazur]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/08/11/the-2011-cryobiology-conference/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Aging: Pathways to Human Life Extension</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/02/28/the-future-of-aging-pathways-to-human-life-extension/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/02/28/the-future-of-aging-pathways-to-human-life-extension/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rejuvenation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biogerontology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gregory Fahy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interventive Gerontology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joshua Mitteldorf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael R. Rose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Rae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nanotechnology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NENS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ray Kurzweil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Freitas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SENS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Cole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Future of Aging: Pathways to Human Life Extension]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Donaldson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This book review was originally published in Cryonics magazine, 1st Quarter, 2011. Editor-in-chief, cryobiologist, and aging researcher Gregory M. Fahy and his associate editors Michael D. West, L. Stephen Cole and Steven B. Harris have compiled what might be the &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/02/28/the-future-of-aging-pathways-to-human-life-extension/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Philosophy of science and life extension</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/01/27/philosophy-of-science-and-life-extension/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Empiricism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Extension]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logical Positivism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metaphysics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Edwards]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Edwards concludes his chapter &#8216;The Semantic Challenge&#8217; in his book God and the Philosophers with the following observation about logical positivism: It is not uncommon nowadays to hear logical positivism dismissed as a set of crude errors and confusions. &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/01/27/philosophy-of-science-and-life-extension/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The RhinoChill: A New Way to Cool the Brain Quickly</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/01/20/the-rhinochill-a-new-way-to-cool-the-brain-quickly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/01/20/the-rhinochill-a-new-way-to-cool-the-brain-quickly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Darwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neuroscience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cryonics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hypothermia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ischemia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Darwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neuroprotection]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We scientists are difficult, cranky, and above all, maddeningly frustrating people. Want to turn lead into gold? No problem, we can tell you how to do that, and in fact have even done it already: the only catch is that &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/01/20/the-rhinochill-a-new-way-to-cool-the-brain-quickly/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Prospects for Mild Therapeutic Hypothermia and Improved CPR in Cardiopulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/01/15/prospects-for-mild-therapeutic-hypothermia-and-improved-cpr-in-cardiopulmonary-cerebral-resuscitation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Darwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neuroscience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of hypothermia: protective or preservative hypothermia, and therapeutic hypothermia. The former is easy and straightforward to understand for most, clinicians and laymen, alike.  However, therapeutic hypothermia has proved to be a far more difficult idea to &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/01/15/prospects-for-mild-therapeutic-hypothermia-and-improved-cpr-in-cardiopulmonary-cerebral-resuscitation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Suspended Animation Conference 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/01/10/suspended-animation-conference-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cryonics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Fahy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Extension Foundation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cryonics company Suspended Animation &#8220;will sponsor the conference, &#8220;Suspended Animation &#8211; The Company and The Goal,&#8221; which will be held in Fort Lauderdale in May, 2011. The conference will feature speakers on the latest strategies and advances toward perfecting &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/01/10/suspended-animation-conference-2011/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is a life worth starting? Some personal views</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/12/27/is-a-life-worth-starting-some-personal-views/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/12/27/is-a-life-worth-starting-some-personal-views/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts & Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cryonics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antinatalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Benatar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forever for All]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immortalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Perry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For life—the life of any sentient creature—to be worth living, there must, as Robert Ettinger has often said, be a preponderance of satisfaction over dissatisfaction. If this overall slant toward good rather than bad is maintained, it seems reasonable that &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/12/27/is-a-life-worth-starting-some-personal-views/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Non-existence is hard to do</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/12/15/non-existence-is-hard-to-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/12/15/non-existence-is-hard-to-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Benatar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Empiricism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Will]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friedrich Nietzsche]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hans Reichenbach]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jim Crawford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marquis de Sade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Max Stirner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Ligotti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transhumanism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A review of  contemporary antinatalist writings Originally published in Cryonics, 2nd Quarter, 2010 (PDF) “Coming into existence is bad in part because it invariably leads to the harm of ceasing to exist.” David Benatar “If they could get a corpse &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/12/15/non-existence-is-hard-to-do/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>At last, a sure-cold way to sell cryonics with guaranteed success!</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/12/10/at-last-a-sure-cold-way-to-sell-cryonics-with-guaranteed-success/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/12/10/at-last-a-sure-cold-way-to-sell-cryonics-with-guaranteed-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Darwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cryonics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adipocytes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chilling Injury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cosmetic Surgery]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cryolipolysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hypothermia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Darwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organ Preservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zeltiq]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A humorous romp through a promising new technique in aesthetic medicine from one cryonicist’s (warped) point of view. Figure 1: Before cryopreservation (L) and after cryopreservation (R). As everyone involved in cryonics for more than a fortnight is sadly aware, &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/12/10/at-last-a-sure-cold-way-to-sell-cryonics-with-guaranteed-success/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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