http://stormyscorner.com/2009/12/book-review-survival-of-the-sickest.html Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:13:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://stormyscorner.com/2009/12/book-review-survival-of-the-sickest.html/comment-page-1#comment-264 stormy Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:13:40 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/2009/12/book-review-survival-of-the-sickest.html#comment-264 You are right that you can't freeze a human and revive them. (He does talk about a frog that can be frozen ...) But his theory is that the sugar enabled people to survive at colder temperatures. There's only a couple of pages on this theory in the book so I obviously don't know enough to defend it. But the ideas and theories he had were very intriguing and could potentially explain a lot about us. Someone interested in any particular one would have to do more research to get the whole story. You are right that you can’t freeze a human and revive them. (He does talk about a frog that can be frozen …) But his theory is that the sugar enabled people to survive at colder temperatures. There’s only a couple of pages on this theory in the book so I obviously don’t know enough to defend it. But the ideas and theories he had were very intriguing and could potentially explain a lot about us. Someone interested in any particular one would have to do more research to get the whole story.

]]> http://stormyscorner.com/2009/12/book-review-survival-of-the-sickest.html/comment-page-1#comment-263 stormy Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:11:10 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/2009/12/book-review-survival-of-the-sickest.html#comment-263 You'd be right ... I changed it. Thanks. You’d be right … I changed it. Thanks.

]]> http://stormyscorner.com/2009/12/book-review-survival-of-the-sickest.html/comment-page-1#comment-262 Vladimir Prus Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:42:38 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/2009/12/book-review-survival-of-the-sickest.html#comment-262 Also at the risk of revealing my ignorance, it seems that the *freezing* temperature of the blood is somewhat irrelevant for humans. Say, 20 degrees Celsius (68F) is well above freezing temperature, but if human body is chilled to that temperature, the prospects will be rather gloomy. (And cold-blooded animals, IIRC, have special cell mechanisms to prevent damage from freezing, anyway). Also at the risk of revealing my ignorance, it seems that the *freezing* temperature of the blood is somewhat irrelevant for humans. Say, 20 degrees Celsius (68F) is well above freezing temperature, but if human body is chilled to that temperature, the prospects will be rather gloomy. (And cold-blooded animals, IIRC, have special cell mechanisms to prevent damage from freezing, anyway).

]]> http://stormyscorner.com/2009/12/book-review-survival-of-the-sickest.html/comment-page-1#comment-261 Kurt McKee Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:27:18 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/2009/12/book-review-survival-of-the-sickest.html#comment-261 At the risk of revealing my own ignorance or illiteracy, it seems to me that in order to support the first half of the sentence, sugar would have to *lower* the freezing point of blood, much like salt. At the risk of revealing my own ignorance or illiteracy, it seems to me that in order to support the first half of the sentence, sugar would have to *lower* the freezing point of blood, much like salt.

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