Articles tagged "death"
Researchers Claim Nuclear Power Has Saved 1.8 Million Lives
Despite the terror inspired by nuclear disasters like Fukushima and Chernobyl, the ledgers say nuclear power is way better for humanity.
Brain Cells May Live Longer When Not Tied to Their Weakling, Mortal Flesh
Bring on the Krang-style immortality.
Vietnam Is Heating Up Its 'Domestic Poison' Cauldron
The syringes sit empty, ready for filling. The staff have all been trained, and are standing by. On Vietnam's death row, everything is set for carrying out hundreds of lethal injections but for one critical ingredient--poison.
Dark Tourism, In Which People Vacation with Death, Just Got Academic
Dark Tourism...it's like rubbernecking with a hotel.
Facebook Ups Its Quest for a Monopoly On the Afterlife
Who do you trust more with your organs, Facebook or the DMV? Or do you even care? Because you're dead, hopefully. The dead part is becoming more and more debatable actually, with a kind of emerging grey (matter, heh) area around the concept of brain
Daylight Savings Time Will Kill You
We all look forward to Daylight Savings Time, the time when we can finally set our clocks back and enjoy not stumbling out of work into pitch-black darkness. But Associate Professor Martin Young, Ph.D of The University of Alabama at Birmingham has…
Motherboard TV: Motherboard Meets Werner Herzog: Into the Abyss, for a Brief, Strange Moment
h4. Werner Herzog on his new documentary, how to have a conversation on camera, and the limits of documentary film Werner Herzog only has half an hour. He’s busy with many projects, including a "new art installation":http://motherboard.vice.com/20…
Worried You're Dead, But Aren't? You Might Have Cotard's Delusion
The one hard, constant truth of existence is that life, in and of itself, is but a gradual counting down to death. Living is dying. But there are those rare few who insist they’ve already left, that they’re merely walking corpses. Cotard’s de…
Envoy Will Keep You Immortal Through Facebook, or Will It? (Q+A)
I don’t even know you but I’ll tell you right now that you’re going to die. I might die first, depending on how the rest of this week goes, but everyone is going to have to take that dirt nap sooner or later. People have been worrying about this for…