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On a roasting day in California, a former television repairman named Bob Nelson drove his truck into the desert to perform a bizarre funeral ritual.

The American-invented dream of averting the finality of death by freezing ones body is a world unto its own. Now its spreading to the UK, France and beyond.

In the last half of the twentieth century, medical science came up with some pretty astonishing ways to replace human parts that were starting to wear

We have long tried to find ways to extend our life expectancy and avoid the inevitable specter of death, but some of these methods really stand out as truly strange. One persistent field of prolonging life deals with not keeping someone alive for longer, but rather putting them in a suspended state of no decay, as if an insect in amber, so that they may be theoretically brought back to life in the far future when medical technology catches up. The field is called cryonics, and it basically invo...

Amid the fight the cia spied on the committees staffers, what that means, is that the position of the top lawyer to the cia will continue to be occupied by a man of the name robert ettinger. oddser, youve never heard of robert ettinger, and youre not alone. it is worth explaining this mans record. do you remember this headline? we would later learn the chief of the cias clandestine branch ordered the destruction of 92 videotapes of enhanced interrogation or what i refer to as torture. tapes of t...

According to the committees chair woman senator dianne feinstein. yesterday, dianne feinstein went out of her way to call out ettinger though stopping short of mentioning him by name. >> i view the acting counsel generals referral as a potential effort to intimidate this staff, and i am not taking it lightly. from mid-2004 until the official termination of the detention and interrogation program in january 2009 he was the units chief lawyer. he is mentioned by name more than 1600 times in our st...

Tolerated. when he says innercity, and culture, these are code words for what he really means, black when you swap out black and brown people for its obvious semantic culture, theres a culture of black and brown men who arent thinking of working. there are shockingly high levels of unemployment in the innercities, i can think of a dozen, even a hundred reasons why without getting near the culture of work. you may have also noticed that paul ryan cited a man named charles murray. he covered a boo...

And the destruction would violate no laws. on that advice, he ordered the tapes destroyed. one of the lawyers who gave that advice was robert ettinger, the man who is right now the cias acting general counsel. and so the cia destroyed those tapes, when this became public, people went appropriately apoplectic. and an investigation was precipitated, the investigation that is now being fought over. now robert ettinger is representing the cia as it goes to war with the senate intelligence committee,...

And years later, the lawyer who says is intimidating her committee, is the same lawyer who gave the green light to destroying tapes showing that torture. joining me now, liza goiteen, i cant really believe that this is the case. it seems to me at the very least, this lawyer needs to recuse himself from anything having to do with this report? >> well, thats certainly would seem to be one possible solution, in that it doesnt look good, it looks very much like retribution on this lawyers part for a...

Tolerated. when he says innercity, and culture, these are code words for what he really means, black when you swap out black and brown people for its obvious semantic culture, theres a culture of black and brown men who arent thinking of working. there are shockingly high levels of unemployment in the innercities, i can think of a dozen, even a hundred reasons why without getting near the culture of work. you may have also noticed that paul ryan cited a man named charles murray. he covered a boo...