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Skeptoid #967: Cryonics: A Chilling Prospect
brian@skeptoid.com (Brian Dunning), Brian Dunning
Spread among several facilities around the world, hundreds of dead people are frozen in capsules cooled with liquid nitrogen and hundreds more have just their heads in the same cold storage. These ...[Continue Reading]
Skeptoid.com
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The Tech World Is Disrupting Book Publishing. But Do We Want EffortlessArt?
Julian Novitz
Publishing is one of many fields poised for disruption by tech companies and artificial intelligence. New platforms and approaches, like a book imprint by Microsoft and a self-publishing tech startup ...[Continue Reading]
Singularity Hub
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NASA Stennis Celebrates Key Testing, Operations Milestones in 2024
LaToya Dean
NASAs Stennis Space Center enjoyed an active 2024, marking several milestones and engaging in frontline activities in several key areas. A compilation video offers a look at 2024 highlights in such a ...[Continue Reading]
NASA
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A Year in Reading: Ellen Wayland-Smith
Ellen Wayland-Smith
I published a book of essays two months ago, which I realized only in retrospect is a collection of meditations on pain, and since then I have been parsing reader reactions in an anecdotal sort of wa ...[Continue Reading]
Themillions.com
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Favorite Books of the Year: Art, Science, Poetry, Psychology, Childrens, and More
Maria Popova
Every month, I spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars keeping The Marginalian going. For nearly two decades, it has remained free and ad-free and alive thanks to patronage from readers. I h ...[Continue Reading]
Themarginalian.org
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Ancient Neanderthals Were Finding And Collecting Fossils, Indicating Cognitive Creativity Not Previously Thought Possible
Michael Levanduski
When most people think of our ancient ancestors, they picture simple humanoid creatures that are almost more like animals than modern humans. According to some research, however, they may have been m ...[Continue Reading]
Twistedsifter.com
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