Cryonics

Cryonics

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Online Harassment, Cyronics, Heroin Babies, Calvin

Episode: Online Harassment, Cyronics, Heroin Babies, Calvin

  • Jan 11, 2017 1:09 am
  • 19:08 mins

Guest: Max More, PhD, President and CEO of Alcor Life Extension Foundation  Captain America, Han Solo, the astronauts in the movies “Interstellar” and “Passengers” are just a handful of characters who’ve been placed into suspended-animation and then brought back to life in science fiction. But there are actually about 300 people currently in a state of cryonic preservation and some 2,000 others who’ve signed up to be frozen as soon as they die. One of the main facilities where this preservation takes place and the bodies are stored is Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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Tackling Online Harassment

22m

Guest: Danielle Citron, JD, Professor of Law, University of Maryland, author of “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace” The internet can be a rough place. You’ve seen the ugliness that comes out in arguments on Facebook or Twitter, or in the comments section of an online news site. For a long time, police, policy makers and everyday people have taken the view that if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the fire. Don’t venture online unless you have a thick skin. Online threats aren’t fun, but they’re just words and well, sticks and stones ...  But in the last couples of years, we’ve seen a growing number of states enacting laws aimed at the ugliest forms of online harassment. And we’ve seen victims coming forward, telling how the violent threats, explicit photos and rampant lies spread about them in online forums have caused serious damage.

Guest: Danielle Citron, JD, Professor of Law, University of Maryland, author of “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace” The internet can be a rough place. You’ve seen the ugliness that comes out in arguments on Facebook or Twitter, or in the comments section of an online news site. For a long time, police, policy makers and everyday people have taken the view that if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the fire. Don’t venture online unless you have a thick skin. Online threats aren’t fun, but they’re just words and well, sticks and stones ...  But in the last couples of years, we’ve seen a growing number of states enacting laws aimed at the ugliest forms of online harassment. And we’ve seen victims coming forward, telling how the violent threats, explicit photos and rampant lies spread about them in online forums have caused serious damage.