20 - Buried Alive

20 - Buried Alive

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74 - R2D2

What does it mean when a computer can make better medical decisions than a human? The progress in large language models, and in particular the popularity of ChatGPT, has brought these questions to the forefront in 2023, but we've been discussing this for over 50 years. In this ep ...  عرض المزيد

73 - Seadragon

What happens when a patient far from surgical care – say, at the bottom of the Pacific ocean on a submarine, or at a research base in Antarctica in the middle of the winter – develops a surgical abdomen? This dilemma was the impetus to build the first truly effective clinical dec ...  عرض المزيد

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The Blurred Line Between Life and Death
The Pulse

We think of life and death as clear cut — you're alive or you're not; your heart's beating or it isn't; your brain functions or it doesn't. But when you look a bit deeper, both on a biological level, and in terms of people's experiences, the border where life ends and death begin ...  عرض المزيد

Buried Alive
Morbid

"If the beard wags, please no body bags."



Today, Alaina is going to take you on a journey that you never wanted to take. Today, we go into the fear, history and hysteria around the idea of premature burial. In this episode, you will lear ...  عرض المزيد

SYMHC Live: Not Dead Yet - Safety Coffins and Waiting Mortuaries
Stuff You Missed in History Class

For the west coast tour, Holly and Tracy talked about the fear of being buried, which reached a fever pitch in Europe and the U.S. from the 18th to the early 20th century. That fear led to some very interesting inventions as humans tried to ensure they wouldn't end up interred be ...  عرض المزيد

Greener In Death
People Fixing the World

This is a story about what happens to your body after you die. In many countries, the current options are burial and cremation, but, both methods come with significant environmental impacts. We’re running out of space for burial in many places, and cremation carries the risk of t ...  عرض المزيد