Smarter Than You Think - Computers Learn to Listen, and Some Talk Back - NYTimes.com

Smarter Than You Think - Computers Learn to Listen, and Some Talk Back - NYTimes.com

Suspended Animation | Health & Medicine | DISCOVER Magazine

Suspended Animation | Health & Medicine | DISCOVER Magazine: "When 35-year-old Mitsutaka Uchikoshi was found last October lying in an ice-cold field on Japan’s Rokko Mountain, a bucolic hiking spot north of Kobe, he was presumed dead. He had no detectable pulse or respiration, and his body temperature was 71 degrees Fahrenheit, 27 hatch marks shy of normal. While returning alone from a party on the mountain, Uchikoshi had stumbled and hit his head; he spent the next 24 days sprawled unconscious in the frigid air, without food or water. But when he arrived at Kobe City General Hospital, something remarkable occurred: He woke up. To the astonishment of the doctors who treated him for severe hypothermia and blood loss, Uchikoshi made a full recovery without a trace of brain damage. “I was in a field, and I felt very comfortable. That’s my last memory,” he told reporters before walking out of the hospital."

Experiments in the Revival of Organisms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Experiments in the Revival of Organisms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Experiments in the Revival of Organisms is a 1940 motion picture which documents Soviet research into the resuscitation of clinically dead organisms. It is available from the Prelinger Archives, and it is in the public domain. The British scientist J. B. S. Haldane appears in the film's introduction and narrates the film, which contains Russian text with English applied next to, or over the top of, the Russian. The operations are credited to Doctor Sergei S. Bryukhonenko."

How Frozen Humans Are Brought Back | LiveScience

How Frozen Humans Are Brought Back | LiveScience: "'There are many examples in the scientific literature of humans who appear frozen to death. They have no heartbeat and are clinically dead. But they can be reanimated,' Roth said. 'Similarly, the organisms in my lab can be put into a state of reversible suspended animation through oxygen deprivation and other means. They appear dead but are not.'"