January 2010
8 posts
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After Life
What happens at the moment when we slip from life…to the other side? Is it a moment? If it is a moment, when is that moment? And what happens afterward? It’s a show of questions that don’t have easy answers. So, in a slight departure from our regular format, Radiolab brings you eleven meditations on how, when, and even if we die. Listen to the whole show...
via Marilyn Monroe - p0909g
[Reposted from nephi]
Alex Fitch talks to writer Fred Van Lente about penning the adventures of undead superheroes in Marvel Zombies, bringing to light the exciting adventures of Action Philosophers from Aristotle to Derrida and co-writing tales of the Incredible Hercules which depict the travails of the Classical demi-god on modern day Earth and beyond.
-Panel Borders | ResonanceFM
We live an increasing amount of our lives online, but what happens to our digital identity after we are gone? Until now our blogs, photos and social network accounts have lived on without us, leaving our loved ones powerless to control them or wind them down. My Webwill is a new service that helps you tweet, email, or Facebook after you die.
Subscribers can set up a digital will with directions...
zombie kids | nastynets.com
[Reposted from landofdreams]
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Catalin Avramescu, from the University of Bucharest, discusses the part played in 17th and 18th century thought by the cannibal. Cannibalism provided a kind of test case for all sorts of natural law theories - it also posed difficulties for those who believed in a literal resurrection of the body after death, since if eaten, then their body parts would have been assimilated into someone...