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Break down survival as Drake equation, see how plastination differs from cryonics, try to calculate advantage No man is an iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of...

After reviewing hits and reading all the relevant looking papers and following citations, the most useful were: The overall thrust of the meta-analyses is that there is consistent and substantial...

After running out of socks one day, I reflected on how ordinary tasks get neglected.

A description of advanced tips and tricks for effective Internet research of papers/books, with real-world examples.

Looking into the oldest edible food suggests a range of 0.05–20 mya food, after discarding myths like honey or woolly mammoth.

Annotations sorted by machine learning into inferred 'tags' . This provides an alternative way to browse: instead of by date order, one can browse in topic order.