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Why the sci-fi dream of cryonics by no means died
When Aaron Drake flew from Arizona to the Yinfeng Organic Group in China in 2016, he was touring there to information China’s first forays into cryonics, or freezing corpses for reanimation.
Drake had spent the earlier seven years because the medical response director of the Alcor Life Extension Basis, a small nonprofit that had managed to develop into the longtime chief in cryonics, freezing the our bodies and brains of its members, with the thought of in the future bringing them again to life, since 1976.
The muse, and cryonics usually, had lengthy survived outdoors of mainstream acceptance. However it’s the latest involvement of Yinfeng that alerts one thing of a brand new period for cryonics.
With spectacular monetary sources, authorities help, and scientific workers, it’s one among a handful of latest labs targeted on increasing the patron enchantment of cryonics and attempting anew to deliver credibility to the long-disputed concept of human reanimation. Nonetheless, the sphere stays rooted in religion somewhat than any actual proof that it really works. Learn the complete story.
—Laurie Clarke
This piece is from our forthcoming mortality-themed difficulty, accessible from 26 October. If you wish to learn it when it comes out, you may subscribe to MIT Know-how Evaluation for as little as $80 a yr.
Are rats with human mind cells nonetheless simply rats?
This week, my colleague Jessica Hamzelou wrote about an enchanting experiment that concerned implanting human mind cells into rats’ brains. The mind cells from each species had been capable of kind connections and work collectively. The human cells turned a part of the rats’ brains.
A number of months after they’d been implanted, the human cells made up round a sixth of the rats’ brains and appeared to have a task in controlling the animals’ habits. Which invitations the tough query: Are these animals nonetheless 100% rat? Learn the complete story.
Jessica’s story is from The Checkup, her weekly e-newsletter exploring all issues biotech and well being. Enroll to obtain it in your inbox each Thursday.
ClimateTech 2022
This week MIT Know-how Evaluation held its inaugural ClimateTech convention on expertise options for local weather change—a giant thanks to everybody who attended in-person or on-line!
In case you missed it, you may meet up with all the most important information and bulletins by way of our reside weblog protecting day one and day two of the convention.
The must-reads
I’ve combed the web to search out you right this moment’s most enjoyable/necessary/scary/fascinating tales about expertise.1 China is getting ready for its historic Communist occasion congress
A 3rd time period for president Xi Jinping is a near-certainty. (Economist $)
+ The congress is a chance for Xi to reassert his management. (FT $)
+ All 2,3000 senior occasion members will attend the assembly. (The Guardian)
+ Douying, Tiktok’s Chinese language sister app, is silencing Cantonese audio system. (Remainder of World)
2 Not everybody in California can afford electrical automobiles
They’re costly, and the state’s push in the direction of EVs dangers overlooking decrease earners. (The Guardian)
+ Even the US secretary of transportation acknowledges the obstacles. (Recode)
+ The US solely has 6,000 quick charging stations for EVs. (MIT Know-how Evaluation)
3 Turkey has handed a flawed “disinformation invoice” forward of its elections
Which, handily sufficient, restricts criticisms of its President Erdoğan. (FT $)
+ The European Parliament has accused Massive Tech of secretive lobbying. (Bloomberg $)
4 Meals is getting dearer 
Provide points and better fuel costs are simply a few of the the explanation why. (Vox)
+ The rising value of meals has contributed to these sky-high inflation figures. (New Yorker $)
5 An AI is planning to run for election in Denmark
The Artificial Occasion, which is led by an AI, claims to symbolize the values of “non-voting Danes.” (Motherboard)
6 Players are the right goal for cybercriminals
Youthful gamers are significantly weak to fraudsters’ advances. (NYT $)
7 Advertisements on Netflix are arriving subsequent month
The corporate desperately needs to draw new prospects, following months of customers canceling their subscriptions. (WSJ $)
8 Intense warmth remedy isn’t only for elite athletes 
Fastidiously managed publicity to warmth might forestall cardiovascular and metabolic illnesses, too. (Neo.Life)
9 Your restaurant server hates your menu hacks
And apps are making it simpler than ever to order elaborate concoctions anonymously. (Eater)
10 There aren’t legs within the metaverse in any case 
Exhausting to imagine, I do know, however Meta misled us. (Kotaku)
+ Meta is desperately attempting to make the metaverse occur. (MIT Know-how Evaluation)
Quote of the day
“There’ll typically be one or two individuals working round like loopy, or doing one thing like creating an enormous cartoon of a cat.”
—Antti Innanen, chief government of Dot, a Finnish authorized design consultancy, explains the pitfalls of attempting to carry individuals’s consideration whereas giving seminars within the metaverse to the Monetary Occasions.
We will nonetheless have good issues
A spot for consolation, enjoyable and distraction in these bizarre instances. (Received any concepts? Drop me a line or tweet ’em at me.)
+ Hey, that’s not how the following line of the music goes!
+ The one and solely Patti Smith is releasing a e-book subsequent month—and it’s impressed by, err, Instagram.
+ This sunlit waterfall is straight out of Home of the Dragon.
+ In case you ever end up in London, it’s solely proper you bask in a little bit of pub grub.
+ We are inclined to gravitate in the direction of the acquainted when one thing’s coming to an finish, and that’s okay.
