To date, 199 people have had their heads and bodies cryopreserved at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation facility in hopes of being revived later. By preserving bodies at below-freezing temperatures, Alcor’s goal is “restoring good health with medical technology MORE
Sure, half a cheer for the former veep for resisting the Jan. 6 coup. But after all the groveling, that’s it Jonathan V. Last of the Bulwark asked an interesting question in his column this week. He MORE
Hi Friday News Viewers, it’s week 42 and as we know, 42 is the meaning of life according to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe. This is our open forum for this last-first-middle day of MORE
Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled that George Floyd’s death was a homicide, caused by Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck for over eight minutes. But Ye — who was a guest on last weekend’s MORE
There was concern on Tuesday over the wellbeing of Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi, who competed in South Korea on Sunday without wearing the head covering required of all women by her country’s hardline Islamic government. MORE
Happy Monday News Viewers, it’s the beginning of the week for some, the middle for others, the end for still others — here in the holler it’s just another day ending in Y, what shall MORE
Chinese leader Xi Jinping signaled Sunday that his government would maintain policies that have put it at odds with the U.S. and other nations and deepened Communist Party control of the economy and society. Many MORE
It’s the second title in three years for the 1,400-pound behemoth dubbed “Bear Force One” On Tuesday, the internet crowned bear 747, a.k.a. “Bear Force One,” the winner of Fat Bear Week 2022. The estimated MORE
A 15-year-old boy fatally shot two people in the streets of a neighborhood in North Carolina’s capital city, then fled toward a walking trail, where he opened fire, killing three more people and wounding two MORE
And what a Friday it is.…. I started the day with a feeling of weightiness; last night, watching the January 6 hearings, I knew it was only one step in many but still a possible MORE
A powerful blast damaged the Kerch Strait bridge in the early hours of Saturday, hitting a crucial route for the supply of fuel, food and other products to the Russian-annexed Crimea (here). Images showed the MORE
Just In: City Council President is resigning today after initially agreeing only to take a leave of absence. During the leaked conversation, reportedly recorded a year ago, Martinez mocked the Indigenous Oxacan community, calling them “little MORE
Is it Monday again? Must we keep repeating Mondays when we all know it was a BAD idea to begin with. …? The day after the weekend, over and over…… it’s like some eternal torture MORE
“Again, Zaporizhzhia. Again, merciless attacks on civilians, targeting residential buildings, in the middle of the night. Absolute meanness. Absolute evil. … From the one who gave this order, to everyone who carried out this order: they MORE
A blast on the strategic road-and-rail bridge linking Russia and the Crimean peninsula on Saturday brought down sections of road taking traffic in one direction, damaging a crucial supply route for Russian forces in Ukraine. MORE
Welcome to our Friday Free Chat—all the news that’s fit to print, all the topics fit to share, all the thoughts fit to think and all the coffee fit to drink. … . Welcome folks, MORE
The story of Lake’s unconventional campaign began in March 2021, after she released a video announcing her resignation from TV news because she wasn’t “proud” to be part of a media that, she argued, had a liberal MORE
Support for Confederate symbols and monuments follows lines of race, religion, and education rather than geography. “. … . .though the Civil War was a battle between two regions of the country, sympathy for the MORE
It’s Monday folks, a fact you no doubt already knew. If only we didn’t know the rest of it — walls of water, crushed cities, wars and rumors of wars, temperatures rising, forests burning, animals MORE
Flamingos at a Florida park hunkered down in a bathroom this week, safely riding out Hurricane Ian after it made landfall Wednesday in the Sunshine State. The flamingos are residents of Sunken Gardens, a botanical park in St. Petersburg along the MORE
This is a portion of a discussion for Salon yesterday between Dean Obeidallah, writer for Salon and Andy Borowitz who wrote “Profiles in Ignorance: How American Politicians got Dumb and Dumber.” The three stages of MORE
In Moscow, the Russian leader declares four Ukrainian regions part of Russia, a widely denounced move that marks an escalation in the war. Per President Zelenskyy, ”We are taking our decisive step by signing Ukraine’s MORE
Happy Friday, News Viewers, and welcome to our Friday Free Chat — somehow, September ended, school started, COVID continued and the wrath of Nature sent Fiona, Merdok, Nora, Nanmadol, Muifa, the Sindh floods and more MORE
Hurricane Ian death toll likely ‘in the hundreds:’ said the Lee County sheriff. ‘ There are thousands of people that are waiting to be rescued,’ says sheriff of one of the hardest-hit areas At least MORE
Russia’s Vladimir Putin will hold a signing ceremony on Friday formally annexing four more areas of Ukraine after self-styled referendums condemned by Ukraine and the West as a sham. Russia’s Vladimir Putin will hold a MORE