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Feb 28, 2006

Brain freeze

Never mind futures – what about eternity?

A brochure came in the mail advising me to put my body into cold storage or, as a backup plan, to have my head removed, dipped in liquid nitrogen and turned into a cerebral popsicle. On the face of it, the process just builds on Clarence Birdseye’s pioneering work in frozen food. He worked out how to freeze fish so quickly the ice crystals wouldn’t grow and turn tissues into a soggy mess on defrosting. I have eaten fish fingers, and Birdseye’s method works. By contrast,

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