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Frozen Head review: Why do some people want to be frozen after death?

1 March 2023

We still don't know if freezing humans for a second life is possible, but a gripping new podcast from Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley takes a deep look inside the practice


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Next Exit film review: New tale of the afterlife takes a wrong turn

22 February 2023

Two volunteers sign up for euthanasia to help a research project when evidence of consciousness after death emerges. The idea’s great, but the script could use a bit more life


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What will your digital footprint tell people about you when you die?

19 June 2019

From exposing sexual secrets to repairing a bad image, the digital afterlife and who controls it matters in unexpected ways, as a fascinating new book explains


Don’t miss: A life in death, aquatic mysteries and the brain unveiled

Don’t miss: A life in death, aquatic mysteries and the brain unveiled

6 March 2019

Hear forensic anthropologist Sue Black talk about her book, explore the fast-warming world of water, and take a trip through the history of mind


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How celebrities have fuelled the amazing rise in pseudoscience

6 March 2019

We sat down with Timothy Caulfield, the medical legal expert behind the TV show A User’s Guide to Cheating Death and the man who takes on celebrity pseudoscience


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Evading death and mind-uploading: The ambition of transhumanism

8 May 2018

Transhumanists could not stop for Death but they kindly stopped for Mark O'Connell, who has captured their beliefs and anxieties in his Wellcome Book Prize winning travelogue


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Why a nasty surprise lurks 100 years on from the lethal 1918 flu

1 January 2018

As the centenary of the great flu epidemic looms, we are right to be pessimistic – especially with H7N9 bird flu virus quietly circulating in China


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Who do we think we are?

5 July 2017

Author Joanna Kavenna demands answers from our Transhumanists' Club, convening at London's Barbican centre on 27 July


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