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Being John Malkovich

1999

A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.

113 min

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On Going On and On and On

The fantasy of living forever is just a fig leaf for the fear of death—and comes at great personal cost

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The Four Immortality Stories We Tell Ourselves

Stephen Cave points out that civilization as a whole can be viewed as a collection of life-extension technologies, the motivation for its existence being again—immortality.

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Soft Immortality: Would You Do It?

However painful death is, to many people immortality is not any better. Why would someone immortal want to live? Where would his or her drive come from?

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Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?

Shin Kubota fears that the lessons of the immortal jellyfish will be absorbed too soon, before man is ready to harness the science of immortality in an ethical manner.

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Living Forever, the Right Way

Through the Immortality Project, researchers aim to answer the moral and biological questions surrounding extending human life spans.

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Will Humans Ever Be Immortal?

The human body is really holding us back.

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Stephen Cave on the Philosophy of Immortality

Filip Matous sits down with Cambridge University philosopher Stephen Cave to crack open some of the insights from his fascinating book, Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization

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The Philosophy of Immortality

Filip Matous sits down with Cambridge University philosopher Stephen Cave to crack open some of the insights from his fascinating book, Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization

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Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization

A fascinating work of popular philosophy and history that both enlightens and entertains, Stephen Cave’s Immortality investigates whether it just might be possible to live forever and whether we should want to.

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The Book of Immortality: The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever

What have we not done to live forever? Adam Leith Gollner, the critically acclaimed author of The Fruit Hunters, weaves together religion, science, and mythology in a gripping exploration of the most universal of human obsessions: immortality.

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Imagination and Creativity