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Myth and Memory in Cryonics
By Mike Darwin Steven B. Harris, M.D. In September of 1988, Steve Harris, M.D., published an essay entitled The Day the Earth Stood Still: Cryonics and the Resurrection of the Mythic Hero. It was one of his best in a … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics History, Cryonics Philosophy, Culture & Propaganda, Philosophy, Uncategorized
Tagged Alcor Life Extension Foundation, BACS, Bay area Cryonics Society, Bill Moyers, body freezing, cryonic suspension, cryonics, cryopreservation, head freezing, Inc., Joseph Campbell, Many are Cold But Few Are Frozen, mike darwin, suspended animation, The Dead Ant Heap, The Power of Myth, The return of the krell Machine, The Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Dead, Trans Time, Will Cryonics Work
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Cryonics: Failure Analysis, Lecture 1, Initialization Failure, Part 4
By Mike Darwin THE PROBLEM OF NO FEEDBACK SLIDE 87 How did these things happen? How did sincere, hard working, committed people who desperately wanted cryonics for themselves allow the situations I’ve just described – the woefully inadequate perfusion capabilities … Continue reading
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Much Less Than Half a Chance Part 5
How to avoid autopsy and long ‘down-time’ (ischemia) ~85% of the time! Saving Lives Now? Coronary Artery Disease and Vasculopathy I’ve been at pains here to emphasize that the primary purpose of the DSS is to alert cryonicists to … Continue reading
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THE EFFECTS OF CRYOPRESERVATION ON THE CAT, Part 1
by Michael Darwin, Jerry Leaf, Hugh L. Hixon I. Introduction II. Materials and Methods III Effects of Glycerolization IV. Gross Effects of Cooling to and Rewarming From -196°C I. INTRODUCTION The immediate goal of human cryopreservation is to use current … Continue reading
Posted in Cryobiology, Cryonics History, Cryonics Technology (General), Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury, Perfusion, Uncategorized
Tagged body freezing, brain cryobiology, brain cryopreservation, brain freezing, brain ischemia, CNS cryobiology, connectome, cryobiiology, cryonic suspension, cryonics, glycerolization, head freezing, ischemia, mike darwin, neuropreservation, post mortem chsanges, reperfusion, suspended animation, therapeutic hypothermia, ultrastructure of frozen brains
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Liquid Assisted Pulmonary Cooling in Cardiopulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation, Part 3
Section 3: Perfluorchemicals (PFCs) Figure 3-1: Fluorine and carbon; the two building blocks of the remarkable molecules knows as the perflurochemicals (PFC)s. Physical Chemistry and Synthesis Perfluorchemicals (PFCs) are derived from hydrocarbons by replacing hydrogen atoms with fluorine … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics Technology (General), Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury, Medicine, Uncategorized
Tagged acute lung injury, acute respiratory distress syndrome, ARDS, cardiac arrest, cardiiopulomnary resuscitation, cerebral resuscitation, cerebral resuscitration, CPR, cryonics, liquid breatrhing, liquid ventilation, lung cooling, mild thereapeutic hypothermia, partial liquid ventilation, perflurocarbons, posty cardiac arrest hypothermia, rapid induction of hypotherrmisa, suspended animation, therapeutic hypothermia, tidal liquid ventilation
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Liquid Assisted Pulmonary Cooling in Cardiopulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation, Part 2
Section 2: Experimental Studies to Determine the Effectiveness of LAPC under Laboratory Conditions Experimental Studies to Determine the Effectiveness of LAPC under Laboratory Conditions [This section is an edited version of an article authored by Steven B. Harris, Michael G. … Continue reading
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Tagged acute lung injury, acute respiratory distress syndrome, ARDS, cardiac arrest, cardiiopulomnary resuscitation, cerebral resuscitation, CPR, cryonics, liquid breatrhing, liquid ventilation, mild thereapeutic hypothermia, neurosalvage, perflurocarbons, PFCs, posty cardiac arrest hypothermia, reanimation, suspended animation, therapeutic hypothermia
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Interventive Gerontology 1.0.02: First, Try to Make it to the Mean: Diet as a life extending tool, Part 1.
By Mike Darwin First, Try to Make it to the Mean For the past two months I’ve been asking people I encounter in public places[1] the question, “How old do you think you’ll live to be?” The answer I get … Continue reading
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Are You Really Sure You Want to Die? A Response and Commentary on the Inevitability of Aging and Death
By Mike Darwin A short while ago the comment appeared on a medical list serve where I post in response to the article “Going, Going, Gone…” which appeared here on Chronosphere about brain aging and the need to develop effective … Continue reading
Future Babble: A Review and Commentary
McClelland & Stewart (October 12, 2010) ISBN-10: 0771035195 Book Review and Commentary by Mike Darwin The success of cryonics, both in absolute and relative terms, arguably depends upon the accuracy and precision with which we (cryonicists) can predict the … Continue reading