Stories
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Artificial intelligence and the dream of eternal life
Until now, eternal life was the stuff of fiction, or in the unknowable realms of religion. But an artificial intelligence that ‘remembers’ the whole of an individual’s experience could be the way to life after death.
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A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine
Harry Parker’s life changed overnight when he stepped on a bomb and lost his legs. He argues that being an amputee doesn’t make him an outlier; we are all hybrid.
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Thalidomide survivors in the 21st century
As thalidomide survivors enter their 60s, they look back on their lives and the legacy of the thalidomide catastrophe.
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Sockets and stumps
Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.
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The Palmer arm and leg : adopted for the U.S. Army and Navy by the Surgeon-General, U.S.A., and by the Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery : manufactured only under the direction of the inventor and patentee / B. Frank Palmer.
Palmer, B. Frank (Benjamin Franklin)Date: [1865]- Ephemera
Leg stretching backwards / [British American Tobacco].
Date: [1939]- Books
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Improvements in artificial legs.
The American Artificial Leg Company.Date: 1902- Ephemera
Leg lifting and circling / [British American Tobacco].
Date: [1939]- Ephemera
Leg raising and lowering / [British American Tobacco].
Date: [1939]