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CPR and the breath of death?

Mike Darwin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:54:35 PDT

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7 For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. – Sanskrit Proverb In the Beginning… Since the beginning of modern resuscitation over [...]

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The scientific conception of the world

Aschwin de Wolf — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:09:09 PDT

The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle (Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung: Der Wiener Kreis)

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CPR: new standards; new needs

Mike Darwin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:21:30 PDT

In 2005 the American heart association revised its standards for CPR increasing the number of compressions from 80 cpm to 100 cpm, eliminating pauses for ventilation, and urging that focus be shifted to compressions (perfusion) rather than ventilation. This latter change is more profound than it might seem at [...]

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Cryonics Training Austin, Texas, July 25 and 26

Shannon Vyff — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:21:59 PDT

Alcor is having a Texas (TX) Readiness Team Training this July 25th and 26th. This training is free and open to Cryonics Institute members as well. July 25th 2009, 10:00am to 5:00pm, lunch provided at 1:00pm July 26th 2009, 10:00am to 3:00pm, lunch provided at 1:00pm All TX area cryoncists are encouraged to attend to learn more about the [...]

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ACD-CPR & the rise of the machine?

Mike Darwin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:43:35 PDT

If conventional cardiopulmonary support (CPS) in cryonics is difficult to perform adequately, and impossible to sustain for more than brief periods (30-60 min) before exhausting even a 3-man standby team, this is even more the case for active compression-decompression CPS (ACD-CPS) using the ResQPump (formerly the Ambu CardioPump). Even in the...

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Two useful new respiratory products

Mike Darwin — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:32:09 PDT

Sometime in the 1780s the French scientist Jacques Charles’s noted that at constant pressure, the volume of a given mass of an ideal gas increases or decreases by the same factor as its temperature on the absolute temperature scale. Or, put more simply, the gas expands as the temperature increases. This is known [...]

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Buried alive?

Aschwin de Wolf — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:13:36 PDT

According to this news item the Alcor Life Extension Foundation is taking legal action against the brother and sister of an Alcor member who “denied the foundation’s request for his body and didn’t notify them of their brother’s death until months after he was buried.” Although some may question the wisdom of pursuing...

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A positive-sum game against nature

Aschwin de Wolf — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:52:29 PDT

Whenever there is a major economic event (a rapid decline of stock prices, a spike in the price of oil, high unemployment, etc.) the media can be counted on to feature a person who was predicting these events all along. This should not be surprising because there are so many professional economists and commentators who [...]

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Hans Reichenbach on evolution

Aschwin de Wolf — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:19:28 PDT

Hans Reichenbach’s The Rise of Scientific Philosophy is among the most accessible and illuminating statements of logical empiricism. Although the book can be read as an introduction to philosophy, the central message of the work is that most of what constitutes philosophy is either (outdated) pre-scientific speculation or incoherent...

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You’re all alone

Aschwin de Wolf — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:08:42 PDT

In ‘The Rise of Scientific Philosophy’ the logical positivist philosopher Hans Reichenbach writes: In Leibniz’s philosophy the rational side of modern science has found its most radical representation. The successful use of mathematical methods for the description of nature made Leibniz believe that all science can be ultimately...

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