The March 2013 issue of Cryonics magazine features an article by Alcor CEO Max More called “The Past, Present, and Future of Membership Dues.” Max answers questions such as “Why do Alcor members have to pay membership dues? What are they used for? Why do I also have to pay CMS (Comprehensive Member Standby) fees? Why can’t we run the organization using income from doing cryopreservations and abolish dues?… Read more »
[FEATURED ARTICLE] Cryonics, March 2013 By Max More Why do Alcor members have to pay membership dues? What are they used for? Why do I also have to pay CMS (Comprehensive Member Standby) fees? Why can’t we run the organization using income from doing cryopreservations and abolish dues? Can’t we just cut our costs? How will dues change in the… Read more »
[FEATURED ARTICLE] Cryonics, March 2013 By Aschwin de Wolf In a previous column called “Iatrogenesis and Cryonics” I observed that cryonics is uniquely vulnerable to iatrogenic injury because the objectives of individual cryonics procedures (such as stabilization) are not clearly defined and due to the lack of obvious feedback that a low temperature stabilization procedure entails. This does not mean that cryonics advocates have not thought about how to… Read more »
The February 2013 issue of Cryonics magazine features an upgraded presentation of Alcor’s membership data, including a complete breakdown of US membership by state and international membership by country. The editor further weighs in on the new membership statistics and discusses what has changed since the last time Alcor published a state-by-state overview. Alcor staff member Michael Perry reviews Michael… Read more »
[FEATURED ARTICLE] Cryonics, February 2013 By Laurence Mueller, Cassandra Rauser, and Michael Rose, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Book Review by R. Michael Perry The book here reviewed is a technical study on the effects of aging, mainly using fruit flies as a model, since these creatures are short-lived so that research involving many generations is feasible. The findings… Read more »
[FEATURED ARTICLE] Cryonics, February 2013 By Chana de Wolf This is the first entry in a new series of short articles about neuroscience and its implications for the field of human cryopreservation and life extension. In this article I discuss the relationship of the brain to consciousness and knowledge acquisition before venturing into more specific and practical topics What is consciousness?… Read more »
The January 2013 issue of Cryonics magazine contains a detailed report of our successful 2012 Alcor-40 conference, including a summary of the presentations of all speakers. This issue also features an extensive review of chemopreservation as an alternative to cryopreservation by Cryonics magazine editor Aschwin de Wolf. Among the topics discussed are the necessity of functional assays to evaluate progress… Read more »
[FEATURED ARTICLE] Cryonics, January 2013 By Chana de Wolf In honor of its 40th anniversary, Alcor held its first conference in 5 years on October 19-21, 2012, in Scottsdale, Arizona. The program featured a wide variety of topics for presentation, with themes regarding how to improve the odds of a successful cryopreservation and theories of aging and their implications for… Read more »
[FEATURED ARTICLE] Cryonics, January 2013 By Aschwin de Wolf Executive Summary Scientific and practical considerations strongly support cryopreservation rather than chemopreservation for the stabilization of critically ill patients. Technology for achieving solid state chemopreservation of brains larger than a mouse brain does not yet exist. Chemical fixation is irreversible without very advanced technologies. Chemical fixation permits no functional feedback or… Read more »
In the November-December issue of Cryonics magazine former Alcor President Michael Darwin takes aim at the (in his eyes) mistaken idea that preservation of the exact concentration and location of neurotransmitters is important for long-term memory and identity, Stephen Bridge reviews Stephen Cave’s recent book “Immortality: the Quest to Live Forever and How it Drives Civilization,” and editor Aschwin de… Read more »
