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Platforms for Haunting: The Talking Dead SxSW Interactive 2013 In March 2013, the Death Reference Desk headed to the South by Southwest Interactive conference. A podcast of Death Ref John’s talk has now been released and you can listen to it below. He was part of presentation called Platforms for Haunting: The Talking Dead. Here [...]
Platforms for Haunting: The Talking Dead South by Southwest Interactive media conference Saturday, March 9 5:00PM – 6:00PM Radisson Town Lake Town Lake Ballroom 111 E Cesar Chavez The Death Reference Desk is headed to the 2013 South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive media conference in Austin, Texas. Doing our best to keep Austin weird! Death [...]
‘Erasing Death’ Explores The Science Of Resuscitation Fresh Air with Terry Gross (February 20, 2013) Terry Gross, of Fresh Air and National Public Radio fame, did a fascinating interview with Dr. Sam Parnia regarding his new book on human death experiences. I’ll let Fresh Air describe it: What happens when we die? Wouldn’t we all [...]
Reflections on Mass Shootings in America
23, Dec 2012Packing Protection or Packing Suicide Risk? Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post (July 07, 2008) Seventeen years ago, a couple of criminologists at the University of Maryland published an interesting paper about the 1976 [Washington, D.C.] ban on handguns — a ban that was recently overturned by the Supreme Court on the grounds it was inimical to [...]
Future Death. Future Dead Bodies. Future Cemeteries John Troyer, TEDxBristol Talk (September 15, 2012) On September 15, 2012 I was one of the TEDxBristol speakers. The TEDxBristol 2012 theme was Future Shock, so I took the opportunity to discuss three of my favorite topics: Future Death, Future Dead Bodies, and Future Cemeteries. The entire TEDx [...]