CryoNet #32681 - #32683

CryoNet - Mon 28 Jun 2010

    #32681: Cryonics as an employment benefit [Luke Parrish]
    #32682: RE: Cryonics as an employment benefit [Eno Onsti]
    #32683: non-destructive brain scan [Jeff Davis]

Rate This Digest: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=32681%2D32683

Administrivia

To subscribe to CryoNet, send email to:
    [email protected]
with the subject line (not message _body_):
    subscribe
To unsubscribe, use the subject line:
    unsubscribe
To post a message to CryoNet, send your message to:
    [email protected]
from the same address to which you are aubscribed.
Send questions, comments, or feedback to [email protected]
with "CryoNet" or "cryonics" somewhere in the Subject line.

Since all CryoNet messages are archived and accessible via WWW,
including search engines, make certain that your postings
reflect how you want the world to see you.

To retrieve past messages, send email to:
    [email protected]
with the message numbers in the subject line.
(Message 0003 describes the advanced syntax.)
You also can retrieve them via the CryoNet web page at URL:
    http://www.cryonet.org/

For administrative or other questions/suggestions, send email
to me at "[email protected]" with "cryonics" in the subject line.
    - Kevin Q. Brown


----------------------------------------------------------------------

Message #32681
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:20:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Luke Parrish <[email protected]>
Subject: Cryonics as an employment benefit

What kind of thought has been given to selling cryonics benefits to employers as a means of attracting top talent?

Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=32681

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Message #32682
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:12:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Eno Onsti <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Cryonics as an employment benefit

Luke, 

In the early days of PayPal, Thiel proposed cryonics as an employee benefit:

http://bit.ly/Ahspg

The beauty of the idea was that properly executed severance packages would
more effectively prevent employees from working for competitors.

Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=32682

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Message #32683
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:22:48 -0700
Subject: non-destructive brain scan
From: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>

This article, relevant to my post of several days back,  just showed
up on Eurekalert.

Best, Jeff Davis

                       *******************************************

Scientists Create 3D Models of Whole Mouse Organs

http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=7634

"Combining an imaging technique called multiphoton microscopy with
"optical clearing,  which uses a solution that renders tissue
transparent, the researchers were able to scan mouse organs and create
high-resolution images of the brain, small intestine, large intestine,
kidney, lung and testicles. They then created 3D models of the
complete organs-a feat that, until now, was only possible by slicing
the organs into thin sections or destroying them in the process,..."

Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=32683

----------------------------------------------------------------------

End of CryoNet Digest
*********************