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EP 70: Tim Urban (Author, "Wait But Why") on Wokeness, AI Girlfriends and Humans Living to 150 Years Old

The Logan Bartlett Show

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The Science of Vitrification

Vitrification is what we do for organ transplants, but you can't actually freeze it or it'll destroy the organ. You use antifreeze and then something like liquid nitrogen to bring it to 195 degrees. It's a viscous liquid that stops atoms from moving right where they are because there's not enough heat. So if you leave an organ out with nut, neither of those things,. it will just deteriorate, right? That the world will just, all the bacteria will eat it away, whatever decompose. The process starts off kind of icky at first and becomes really fun when you start to get it.

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