In case you"re a person of #extremes and #courage and happen to be a little too #hot... - http://clapway.com/2015/07/22/5-ways-to-freeze-to-death/

Freezing weather is no joke (though in the heat of the summer, definitely a welcome joke)! More people die from freezing each year than you would think. There are multiple ways that you could freeze to death, but the most common way is sleeping outside over night in freezing temperatures (this usually happens to homeless people.) However, there are other ways this can happen to you if you aren’t careful:

 

1. Locked in a freezer – people who work in restaurants can sometimes get stuck in them, especially when the door’s latch is broken.

2. Getting lost in the mountains – if you’re hiking in the fall or winter months, and you end up getting lost, unfortunately you’re probably going to freeze to death. Ever heard of the Donner Party?

3. Getting stuck in your car in a blizzard – if you’re driving in terrible weather and you happen to take a turn to quickly and wreck, it’s very likely you’ll be stuck there long enough to freeze to death before someone finds you.

4. Falling into a frozen lake – If you’re out fishing on a frozen lake and fall in, without someone around to help you out, you’re probably going to freeze to death.

5. Sitting in ice until you freeze to death – If you’re smart enough to accept a challenge like this from your friends, it’s likely that you could get hypothermia and freeze to death (if you sit in the ice long enough.)

Don’t let these things happen to you. Be safe and don’t go hiking in the winter. Be smart and don’t try and drive during a blizzard. Don’t go ice fishing alone, and don’t listen to your drunken friends who think it’d be funny for you to sit in ice until you sober up.

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If you’re trying to lose weight with cold temperatures, use this instead of the above methods:

 

5 Ways to Freeze to Death

Doctors Skeptical About Success of First Head Transplant - http://clapway.com/2015/06/14/doctors-skeptical-about-success-of-first-head-transplant-776/

In theory, surgery should work. Yet, doctors have doubts.

Valery Spiridinov, the world’s first head transplant volunteer, suffers from a degenerative disease known as Werdnig Hoffman. The incurable illness is characterized by the wasting away of muscle tissue, so the thirty year-old has placed high hopes in Italian neuroscientist Dr. Sergio Canavero’s proposed head transplant procedure. While, in theory, every part of the surgery should work, many health professionals question that Valery’s brain will still function after what’s set to be a long, unfathomably intricate experimental procedure.

Head transplant will involve large-scale fusing of blood vessels and nerves.

The procedure consists of first inducing hypothermia, or drastically lowering the body temperature, of both the patient and the donor. This is done in order to ensure minimum risk of tissue damage due to lack of blood flow. The second step is partial severance of the neck, with blood vessels from the patient’s head being connected to the donor body. After that, the patient’s spinal cord will be cut very sharply, and the head removed and placed atop the new body with nerve endings and blood vessels “knitted” together. Finally, after a medically induced coma lasting a few weeks that should allow the spinal cord to heal itself, the person would be brought back. The whole procedure would last under a day, according to Canavero. It should work in theory, but doctors are showing concern towards the knitting of blood vessels and nerves, since it has never been attempted before on a scale nearly this large.

Neurosurgeon interviewed about the surgery had mixed feelings.

As an Oxford-trained consultant neurosurgeon at St. George’s Hospital in London, Matthew Crocker has years of experience as well as awards and medals in neurosurgery. He explains to us that parts of the surgery are made difficult by their magnitude, such as the connection of nerves and blood vessels, while others have simply never been attempted before. He describes the healing of the spinal cord during a medically induced coma as being “very speculative,” since it has never been attempted before and the person’s old, working spinal cord will be removed. There has never been a spinal cord reattachment done in the history of medicine, yet Canavero tells us the head transplant surgery is doable by 2017 and will have a success likelihood of 90%.

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Doctors Skeptical About Success of First Head Transplant