What Podcast Made You Fall in Love With Podcasts?
In 2022, I spent 97 days and 20 hours listening to podcasts on Pocket Casts alone. (Add in time I listened on Spotify and other platforms and the total grows…
Digital Eternity Is Just Around the Corner
It’s human nature to want to keep the memory of the deceased alive. Photography, for instance, has served as a powerful tool to help us do this. I’ve explored this…
US Couple, Both 100 Years Old And Married 79 Years, Die Just Hours Apart
The husband and wife died 20 hours apart on November 30 and December 1, respectively,In a love story that will probably be remembered for ages, an Ohio couple, both 100…
Watch: Snake’s Dramatic Fake Death Leaves Internet In Splits, Called A ”Drama Queen”
Hognose snakes fake death to avoid predationAs humans, we are hardwired to have an unwarranted fear of snakes. This is owing to the fact that we don’t know which reptile…
Booker Prize-Winning British Author Hilary Mantel Dies
British author Hilary Mantel has died at the age of 70.London: Award-winning British author Hilary Mantel has died at the age of 70, her publisher said on Twitter on Friday.”We…
Pandemic Death Counts Are Numbing. There’s Another Way to Process
What does the incalculable look like? How does the unfathomable feel? Can you listen to the unimaginable? We are in the midst of the single largest mass mortality event in…
Now AI Bots Can Speak For You After Your Death. But Is That Ethical?
Deadbots use AI, machine learning and can simulate chats as an individual ever after their deathMachine-learning systems are increasingly worming their way through our everyday lives, challenging our moral and…
The Centuries-Old History of Setting Yourself on Fire As Protest
Photo: Rena Schild (Shutterstock) Over the weekend, a climate activist from Colorado died after setting himself on fire in front of the United States Supreme Court. Wynn Bruce’s self-immolation coincided…
14 Ways to Achieve Immortality That Will Totally Work, I Swear
Screenshot: Futurama/Hulu Ocean quahogs can live to be over 500 years old. These clammy assholes spend centuries doing nothing but burrowing into the ocean floor and filtering algae out of…
Deepfakes Can Help Families Mourn—or Exploit Their Grief
We now have the ability to reanimate the dead. Improvements in machine learning over the past decade have given us the ability to break through the fossilized past and see…