July 31, 2013

Death Will Soon Be Reversible

“We may soon be rescuing people from death’s clutches hours, or even longer, after they have actually died.”

“We may soon be rescuing people from death’s clutches hours, or even longer, after they have actually died.” So claims Sam Parnia, a researcher at Stony Brook University School of Medicine in New York and the author of Erasing Death: The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death.

For a window into Parnia’s ideas about the science of resuscitation, check out this interview with him published on Der Spiegel.

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Thinking

The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

Building destroyed by the Halifax Explosion. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

The Past

The largest accidental explosion of all time

More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

a collage of photos of a man with a hat and a book.

High Culture

6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators

Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.

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The Well

Signs you’re burned out — and how to bounce back

If you don’t feel better after the weekend, the “burnout paradox” could explain why.

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Laurie Santos

Starts With A Bang

The trick to instantly identifying JWST images

If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it’s a JWST image or any other observatory.

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