Podcast appearances and mentions of Sergio Canavero

In this episode of Health411, host Dr. Jonathan Karp and producer Daniel Geller discuss the fascinating topic of head transplantation. They explore the feasibility and controversy surrounding the idea of transplanting a human head onto a different body. The scientific and ethical implications of this complex procedure are discussed, including the work of Sergio Canavero, a neurosurgeon who has been at the forefront of head transplantation research. Join us for an insightful and thought-provoking discussion that will challenge your views on what is possible in modern medicine. Tune in to this episode of Health411 and gain a better understanding of the possibilities and limitations of head transplantation.

Heads will roll on this newest episode of Debut Buddies! We're diving into Sergio Canavero's quest to one-up the movie Face/Off by popping someone's head on another person's body! (Don't worry, they won't be using it at the time.) He claimed it was successful in 2017! (Also, he's moved onto just boring old brain transplants now, maybe?) Technically, anything is possible! (And he loves to sew mouse heads to rats for... "science".) (I'm sure it's fine.) (Totally, totally fine.) We also play I See What You Did There, and check in on the old Mouthgarf Report!Have a comment? Been contemplating what body part you'd transplant? Maybe you want to be a guest on the show? Email us at debutbuddies@gmail.comListen to Kelly and Chelsea's awesome horror movie podcast, Never Show the Monster.Get some sci-fi from Spaceboy Books.Get down with Michael J. O'Connor's music!Next time: First Tenacious D Album

In this episode of Health411, host Dr. Jonathan Karp and producer Daniel Geller discuss the fascinating topic of head transplantation. They explore the feasibility and controversy surrounding the idea of transplanting a human head onto a different body. The scientific and ethical implications of this complex procedure are discussed, including the work of Sergio Canavero, a neurosurgeon who has been at the forefront of head transplantation research. Join us for an insightful and thought-provoking discussion that will challenge your views on what is possible in modern medicine. Tune in to this episode of Health411 and gain a better understanding of the possibilities and limitations of head transplantation.

Sometimes the question is not if you could...but if you should. Should we be able to transplant human heads like legos? That's the plan of one very annoyed Italian man and he can't wait to get started....Join Linz and Chris as they go under the knife and peel back the skin on the strange world of Dr Sergio Canavero and his quest to find willing participants for the first human head transplant!Thanks to our Patreons: Lins Gibson, Drake, Krysta Furioso, Michael P McCoy, Wesley Akers, Riaz K, Emily Medeiros, Mark, PIP, Philipp HofmannSupport the showSupport us on Patreon

#headtransplant #headtransplantation #future #centralpain #neuromodulation #koinly WORLDS 1ST HUMAN HEAD TRANSPLANTATION-DR SERGIO CANAVERO Dr. Sergio Canavero is an Italian neurosurgeon known for his controversial claims about the near-term feasibility of head transplantation— the grafting of a head onto a new body— in humans. He made headlines in 2015 when he publicly announced that he would perform such a procedure on a human in two years' time. In 2017, Canavero and colleagues performed a rehearsal head transplantation procedure on two cadavers, and he announced his intention to "imminently" perform the operation on a live human patient paralyzed from the neck down. As of 2022, however, this has not yet happened. Dr. Canavero is MD, Turin Univ. US FMGEMS/USMLE, BC Functional Neurosurgeon. He is also a Visiting Professor at Ruikang Hospital, Guanxi Univ. Trad. Chinese Med., Nanning, PRChina He has also authored-Central Pain Syndrome, Immortal. Why Consciousness is Not in the Brain I and II, Head Transplantation and the Quest for Immortality, Extreme Brain Reanimation. The Frankenstein Effect plus The Technology of Brain Transplantation. Lord Ganesha head transplant, Hindu Mythology- Ganpati head transplant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Canavero This Episode is Sponsored by - @Koinly Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsor: @Koinly www.koinly.io Kindly write to us at changetransformindia@gmail.com if you/your brand would like to partner, sponsor, and support @CHANGE-Transform India - 1st Future-Tech meets sustainability #podcast in India. Kindly Subscribe to CHANGE- I M POSSIBLE - youtube channel www.youtube.com/ctipodcast

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 When one mentions the topic of “head transplantation” (or a related topic – the “brain transplant”), for most people, it remains a topic purely in the context and sphere of science fiction. Yet most people are unaware of the following history: In 1908, Nobel Prize winner Alexis Carrel, a French surgeon who had developed surgical methods to connect blood vessels in the context of organ transplantation, collaborated with the American Charles Claude Guthrie perform the first head grafts between dogs. In 1954, Vladimir Demikhov, a Soviet surgeon who conducted important work to improve coronary bypass surgery, performed experiments in which he grafted a dog's head and upper body, onto another dog; the effort was focused on how to provide blood supply to the donor head and upper body. In 1965 American neurosurgeon Robert J. White did a series of experiments in which he attempted to graft the vascular system of isolated dog brains onto existing dogs monitoring brain activity with EEG and also monitored metabolism, and showed that he could maintain high levels of brain activity and metabolism by avoiding any break in the blood supply. In 1970 he did four experiments in which he cut the head off of a monkey and connected the blood vessels of another monkey head to it. From 1970-1994, Paul A. Pietsch was a Professor in the School of Optometry and an Adjunct Professor of Anatomy at Indiana University, and conducted and published on a long series of "brain shuffling" / transplantation experiments in regenerative organisms between salamanders and frogs. Related "brain switching" experiments have routinely taken place in the world of embryology to this current day, between species such as chickens and ducks, and quails and finches. Dr. Ren Xiaoping, is an orthopedic surgeon from China, and is most well known for being part of the team that achieved the first hand transplant in China. Dr. Ren attended the Harbin Medical University in Harbin, China, and received his M.D. in 1984. From 1996 to 2000, he continued his education, performing research relating to anatomy and hand surgery. During this period, specifically on January 25, 1999, the first hand transplant was performed on Matthew Scott, and Ren was an influential figure in this achievement. He is currently a partner with Italian neurosurgeon Dr. Sergio Canavero in a project (HEAVEN - Head Anastomosis Venture) to plan and attempt the first human head transplant, known as a Cephalosomatic Anastomosis, an operation that has never been done before. 

Tout d’abord un article de M, le Magazine du Monde revient sur « le sacrifice absurde des pompiers de Beyrouth ». Dix sapeur-pompiers qui « ont été pulvérisés par l’explosion » du 4 août 2020. Alors qu’ils étaient venus éteindre l’incendie de l’entrepôt abritant le stock de nitrate d’ammonium, ils ont été « envoyés à une mort certaine, sans même avoir été avertis du danger », explique le magazine du Monde. Il voit ici « un drame emblématique d’une profession laissée pour compte par les dirigeants politiques, à l’image de l’ensemble du pays ». « Qui sont les assassins du Liban ? » La Une de L’Obs se demande justement : « Qui sont les assassins du Liban ? » Et quand on ouvre le magazine, on peut lire un entretien avec Nadim Houry, chercheur, ancien enquêteur de l’ONU qui a également fondé le bureau de l’ONG Human Rights Watch au Liban. En bref, un beau CV. Et il n’est pas tendre avec la classe dirigeante : pour lui, la démission du gouvernement a été « une étape essentielle dans la refonte du pouvoir », mais elle est « loin d’être suffisante » pour répondre aux aspirations de la rue et d’une jeunesse qui « rêve d’un autre Liban. Aujourd’hui, dit Nadim Houry, le Liban est dirigé par 6 oligarques » parmi lesquels : Saad Hariri, Hassan Nasrallah, ou bien encore Michel Aoun. Une « mafia qui se partage le gâteau » et qui devrait faire place à un changement radical, estime le chercheur. « Un changement de système », déjà recommandé par le président français lors de son déplacement, rappelle-t-il. La place de la France ce dossier libanais « La France a-t-elle encore un rôle à jouer dans un Liban dévasté », s’interroge L'Express pour qui la « prompte venue » d’Emmanuel Macron a « sans doute accompagné le mouvement ayant conduit au départ de l’exécutif ». Un départ que la population réclamait depuis un moment, dans « un pays à genoux », face à « une économie lessivée ». De son côté, le Journal du Dimanche revient sur le déplacement de la ministre des armées Florence Parly, jeudi et vendredi. Le JDD estime que la France « tente l’impossible » et affirme que l’opération humanitaire dépêchée par Paris « s’accompagne d’un jeu politique en coulisses pour éviter que le pays ne sombre dans le chaos ». Un peu plus bas, on peut aussi lire l’interview de Samy Gemayel, chef du parti d’opposition libanais Ketaïeb, qui nous dit, en somme, « Macron a raison de mettre la pression sur le cartel ». Un jeu politique, vous dit-on… Marianne et ses plans de relance Dans la presse hebdo également cette semaine, Marianne nous parle « plans de relance ». Marianne estime en Une que « la France part en miettes ». Les articles s’enchaînent et nous montrent « ces églises à faire vivre », 5000 bâtiments en « grande souffrance », dont « 500 en péril ». Marianne montre également ces « moulins qui vont pas fort », ces « routes, voies ferrées et ponts à l’abandon »… Le magazine préconise donc des grands travaux à l’échelle nationale. « Vite, un plan de relance », demande-t-il, rappelant au passage qu’ « en 2012, la France était classée au 5ème rang mondial des infrastructures par le World Economic Forum (WEF). Elle est désormais neuvième ». Marianne se montre beaucoup plus sceptique, en revanche, sur le plan de relance européen mis sur la table pour répondre à la crise du Covid-19. « Qui va payer ? » se demande l’hebdo. Ŋuelŋue 390 milliards d’euros de subvention en trois ans, et 360 milliards de prêts supplémentaires si nécessaire. Marianne se souvient qu’Emmanuel Macron a promis :  « Le contribuable français ne mettra pas la main à la poche. » L’Europe devrait donc « financer elle-même son plan avec des impôts sur les Gafam, le carbone ou la spéculation », peut-on lire. Mais « problème » : tous ces dossiers sont minés ou bloqués, et là-dessus « les 27 États de l’Union ne se mettront jamais d’accord » estime Marianne qui conclut « In fine, le risque est grand que le plan de relance soit financé par une hausse des contributions directes des Etats ou, plus vraisemblablement, par une baisse des dépenses pour les politiques communes ». Comprenez : un financement par les contribuables ou une baisse des services que l’Europe pouvait leur rendre. « L’exploit de Lyon » Mais il y a toujours le football ! Et « l'exploit de Lyon » à lire ce matin dans le Journal du Dimanche. « Lyon rejoint Paris à la table des grands », se félicite le JDD. En quart de finale de Ligue des champions hier soir, « Lyon a sorti Manchester City avec panache (3-1) et affrontera le Bayern en demi-finale mercredi », écrit encore le journal. Et cocorico : «  ll y aura donc deux clubs français dans le dernier carré européen. Une première dans l'Histoire. » L'Histoire, écrite ici par le JDD avec un grand "H" bien sûr, c'est important ! Une rencontre insolite dans L’Obs D'autres choses à lire dans les magazines cette semaine, dont une rencontre pour le moins insolite et surprenante. Il y a notamment « Jurassique Cash », dans M, le magazine du Monde. Un article sur la folie des enchères autour des squelettes de dinosaures, passion de riches collectionneurs privés. Intéressant. On peut aussi partir au Vatican avec Le Figaro Magazine, un reportage illustré où l’on apprend plein de choses sur les coulisses de la basilique Saint-Pierre de Rome et ses secrets de conservation. Mais, il y a aussi cette rencontre particulière que nous offre L’Obs en effet. Avec un «  savant fou » italien, Sergio Canavero. Ce neurochirurgien, « ancien directeur du Groupe de Neuromodulation avancée de Turin », souhaite tous simplement « greffer une tête sur un corps humain ». Facile, il « dit que c’est possible et traite d’“ânes” ceux qui ne croient pas en lui », explique L’Obs. Il avait annoncé son projet lors d’une conférence en 2015, en cassant des spaghettis sur scène et en les recollant comme il ferait avec un humain. En 2017, Sergio Canavero « a même annoncé avoir réussi, avec une équipe chinoise, une transplantation de tête... à partir de deux cadavres humains. » Il s’est d’ailleurs installé en Chine, sur l’invitation d’un confrère pour poursuivre ses recherches « sulfureuses ». Et Inutile de l’appeler « Docteur Frankenstein », ironise L’Obs, parce qu’ « il convoque lui-même le personnage de Mary Shelley lors de ses présentations ». Un sympathique personnage.

Today we travel to a future where you can plop your head onto a brand new body.  Guests: Dr. Sergio Canavero — neurosurgeon & aspiring human head transplanter Dr. Zaev Suskin — doctor & bioethicist Dr. Paul Root Wolpe — director of the Center for Ethics at Emory University → → → Further reading & resources here! ← ← ←  How to get involved in the movement against police brutality. Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky. Get in touch:  Twitter // Facebook // Reddit // info@flashforwardpod.com Support the show: Patreon // Donorbox Subscribe: iTunes // Soundcloud // Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we'll discuss the history of head transplantation and recent medical advancements that might soon make the procedure a reality.  Dr. Sergio Canavero is a very controversial figure within the scientific community.  He's a cartoonishly boisterous neurosurgeon with 22 years of experience.  Despite his extensive resume, many of his peers feel that his research is without merit, that human head transplantation is impossible, and that Canavero's ambitions have made him reckless.  Other critics object to the procedure on ethical grounds.  Listen to Kevin and Samantha attempt to discuss these topics as Tiny and John Long from the Earth Oddity Podcast do everything within their power to veer the conversation into the oncoming traffic of their minds.     

  As John Lennon once said in song ‘you may call me a dreamer'.  Well, Italian neurosurgeon Dr. Sergio Canavero has been called that and worse with his long pronounced intention to do a head transplant.  You read that correctly. Not a facial transplant…a head transplant. While some may say it's a true medical moonshot, others … Continue reading EP 252 Is a Head Transplant Really Possible?

Thoughts? Comments? You can contact me by calling or texting 201-429-0274. If you leave a voicemail please be aware, you only have 3 minutes. Email me at improveandhavefun@gmail.com ..Join the conversation on the blog by going here https://bit.ly/2GzvfA7 ..Thanks for listening!   The three weird stories covered this week: 1. NYC Rats. Uptown Vs. Downtown http://cbsloc.al/2nlPDeZ   2. Ancient Sunken Roman City Explored http://bit.ly/2kjDfer  3. Human Head Transplant http://bit.ly/2io9gOu    There is an affiliate link in this article. The first story, 'NYC Rats, Uptown Versus Downtown.' If you have ever lived in a New York City, you've encountered rodents. I've lived in The Bronx, and I found some ginormous rats there. This article is from www. newyork.cbslocal.com, and this is dated the 1st of December 2017. "New York is a city of diverse humans, and a Fordham University student team has discovered it maybe the city of diverse rats as well. A study by five researchers found Manhattan's Uptown and Downtown rats are genetically different, as are West Village versus East Village rats. A sampling of 262 Rattus Norvegicus, or brown rat to the layman, were used to find out where the original rats of New York City first came from and how various neighborhood's rat populations were related to each other over time. Across Manhattan, rats exhibited homogenous population origin from rats that likely invaded from Great Britain, the researchers said." "Since the move over from Europe, colonies of rats have become more tightly clustered to groups staying within a few blocks of a common nest or area. In addition to trapping and measuring the genetic profile of rats, the team also used a crowdsourced online rat map," which you will find a link to in the article, "And it shows a concentration of rats below 34th Street and another group on the Upper West Side north into Washington Heights." This story made me think of a movie released during the 70s called Food of the Gods were these giant rats were eating people. Check that out here through this affiliate link https://amzn.to/2GUajTL  "Between the two groups, Midtown appears to have less to offer rat colonies as bases of residence. In the city's most recent attempts to win the war against the furry vermin, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced in July a $32 million plan to reduce the rat population by 70%." Now, let's go on to the next story, which is, sunken Roman City explored. This is on www.dailystar.co.uk. As always, I'll leave links to all these articles in the show notes so you can take a look at them yourselves. This is published on the 4th of December 2017. "Baiae was an ancient resort on the west coast of Italy that largely disappeared beneath the waves 1700 years ago. The town in Naples was a resort of choice for Roman's superrich and became notorious for its sprawling mansions. It was a place synonymous with luxury and wickedness, historians claim, a wine-soaked party town. But as the centuries passed, much of it lost to the sea as volcanic activity caused the coastline to retreat 400 meters inland," or 400 miles inland, I'm not sure. It's the UK, so I know they measure things differently. "Now, the site in modern-day Italy has been rediscovered and open to divers, who found the many treasures still intact. Photographer Antonio Busiello who lives in Naples photographed the site and found that roads, walls, mosaics and even statues had survived the ravages of time. The 45-year-old said, "The beautiful mosaics, and the villas, and the temples that have reemerged or still underwater show the opulence and wealth of this area." The pictures from this article show how well preserved this underwater city has remained. You can see the images in the video version of this segment which you can find here or by clicking the link to this original story here http://bit.ly/2kjDfer  Now, to the third and final story. The headline is 'World's First Human Head Transplant a Success, controversial scientist claims'. This story is on www.telegraph.co.uk, and it's dated, November the 17th of 2017. "The world's first human head transplant has allegedly been performed on a corpse in an 18-hour operation which successfully connected the spine, nerves, and blood vessels of two people. The operation was carried out by a team led by Dr. Xiaoping Ren of Harbin Medical University in China, who last year successfully grafted a head onto a body of a monkey. ' 'Italian professor Sergio Canavero, director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, who has been working with the team, said they would imminently move onto a living human who was paralyzed from the neck down. He told The Telegraph that electrical stimulation of the nerves proves the operation on the corpse has been successful." We're living in science fiction movie. It's crazy that these things are happening, and this is what's is reported. Imagine what we, the public, are not being told. That's going to be it for this segment. As always, if you have any comments, thoughts, contact me, let me know what you think.   Enjoyed this?   Find more weird stories here: www.weirdstoriespodcast.com   Social Media Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paul_pvp_perez/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pvpluvzlieff   Twitter: https://twitter.com/Paul_PVP_Perez    Rate, like, leave a review! I will shout you out for sure!   If you've enjoyed this, please support this podcast by doing any, all your shopping through my affiliate links:   my eBay link: eBay http://ebay.to/2e5mvmj   or my Amazon link: http://amzn.to/2dRu3IM   Any shopping through these links will be at no extra cost to you. 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John Derby and Travis Spencer discuss the head transplant procedure HEAVEN aka Head Anastomosis Venture Project led by controversial neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero. Then at 14:06, they discuss trending topics including Californians putting sunscreen on their eyes to view the eclipse, Byron Leftwich future head coach?, Rent-a-Dad, toes on ancient horses and Justin Bieber's testes!  At 38:42, Jesse McIntosh tells of who he might switch lives with before Jake Plummer. At 40:50, your Facebook World News Update. At 41:41, the Mad Doctor Remix. At 44:52, Deb Loftis isn't having a wonderful day in the neighborhood. Finally, at 49:39, Bill Ryan tells a story of being butler/bartender to U2! #HeadAnastomosisVentureProject

This is Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. Here is the news. President Xi Jinping says China must adhere to the basic state policy of family planning for the long term. Xi made the remark in a written instruction to a conference of the Family Planning Association held in Beijing recently. Xi says the population issue has always been an overall and long-term strategic issue facing the country. He says that for quite a long time in the future, China's basic national condition of a large population will not change fundamentally. The population pressure on economic and social development will not change fundamentally, and neither the tensions between population, resources and environment will change fundamentally. The president speaks highly of the efforts of the family planning association over the years. He says the association should earnestly perform its duties, guide the people to correctly understand the adjustment to the family planning policy, and provide relevant services. Since January 1, China has allowed all married couples to have two children. This followed an earlier easing of the policy in 2013 that allowed couples to have a second child if either parent was an only child. The latest change ended the "one child" policy, which was implemented in the late 1970s. This is Special English. A conference was held in Beijing recently to mark International Day for Biological Diversity and the 60th anniversary of the initiation of nature reserves in China. China's top advisory body, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, hailed nature reserves as important means of boosting biodiversity. It is calling on authorities to come up with better laws, as well as increase investment and international cooperation so as to better protect nature reserves. China's first nature reserve was established in south China's Guangdong Province in 1956. The Chinese government is aiming to strengthen management of nature reserves in the 13th Five-Year Plan period between 2016 and 2020. China has more than 2,700 nature reserves, covering a combined area of 1.5 million square kilometers, or around 15 percent of the country's total land area. Almost 90 percent of all kinds of wildlife and wild plants under state protection and most of the nation's key natural remains are preserved in nature reserves. The population of some endangered species is recovering, adding more than 1,800 giant pandas living in the wild. A new version of the catalogue of life in China has been unveiled. The catalogue is updated annually, providing free information on China's animals, plants and fungi. You are listening to Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. A top U.S. scientist says China should add an HPV vaccine into its national immunization program as soon as possible to help protect women from cervical cancer. The call has been made by Douglas Lowy, acting director of the United States National Cancer Institute. It comes 10 years after the first HPV vaccine received market approval in the United States. Today, such vaccines are used in around 120 countries and regions. Yet it is still not available on the Chinese mainland. This results in many women traveling to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, where local authorities have cleared a vaccine for the market. HPV, the human papillomavirus, is largely sexually transmitted. It is a major cause of cervical cancer and other serious conditions. Cases of cervical cancer have been on the rise on the mainland. An average of 100,000 new cases is reported each year, making it the fifth most common cancer among women. To reverse the trend, Lowy has suggested China vaccinate women against HPV, especially those living in areas with a high rate of cervical cancer. He believes girls aged 14 and younger should be the priority. His institute estimates that widespread use of HPV vaccines prevents more than two-thirds of cervical cancer cases from occurring. This is Special English. Sergio Canavero, an Italian doctor well-known for advocating head transplant, has announced that the first head transplant will be carried out in China by the end of next year. Canavero says the Chinese medical team is familiar with the relevant techniques; and the first person to undergo such an operation will be a Chinese citizen. However, the doctor says he is not sure whether the surgery is as mature as he suggests, and whether a head transplant will succeed. And before such a transplant is attempted, there are legal and ethical questions to be considered. Currently there has been no successful head transplant involving animals. Many people suggest that the law should be more tolerant of medical developments, and experiments are needed to realize medical progress. Others argue that even the slightest error during the surgery would likely lead to the death of the patient. Although sometimes science advances at the cost of human lives, that does not mean that risking someone's life in pursuit of such advancement should be encouraged. Canavero did not say what he thought the odds were of success; and no medical association supports the transplant. You are listening to Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. China has the best national environment for higher education institutions in Asia. That's according to rankings released recently by higher education consulting company Quacquarelli Symonds. The 2016 Higher Education System Strength rankings placed China in eighth place worldwide. China is followed by South Korea which ranked ninth, and Japan in 10th place. The result marks China's best performance of the past three years and is also the first time the Chinese mainland surpassed Italy and Japan in the strength of higher education systems. Last year, Italy and Japan were in eighth and ninth places, while China was in 11th position. Some 50 countries and regions around the world were included in the rankings this year. The United States continued to lead the world in higher education. Four European countries, including the United Kingdom and Germany, entered the Top 10. The consulting company says the rankings represent a new attempt to put university performance alongside other metrics to assess the strengths and weaknesses of a country or region's overall higher education environment. The latest QS ranking aims to measure the factors that make a nation's higher education system more likely to succeed. It is based on four criteria, namely, system strength, access, flagship and economy. China's strongest score came in the economy metric, where it ranked second worldwide, with a weighted score of 99.9, only 0.1 behind the United States. In addition, China has made improvements in all other metrics, including equity of education, educational investment and top universities, or flagships. You're listening to Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. You can access the program by logging on to newsplusradio.cn. You can also find us on our Apple Podcast. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let us know by e-mailing us at mansuyingyu@cri.com.cn. That's mansuyingyu@cri.com.cn. Now the news continues. A Chinese teenager who won first prize in an international violin competition in London, 16-year-old He Zi-yu from Qingdao in Shandong province won laurels in the Yehudi Menuhin Competition London 2016. He was the youngest player in the senior group. He also won the opportunity to use a golden Stradivarius violin made in 1715 for a year. String instruments made by the celebrated 17th and 18th century Italian masters are considered to be the highest quality in the world. The Yehudi Menuhin Competition is an international music contest for violinists under the age of 22. The competition was founded in 1983 by Yehudi Menuhin, the famous American Jewish violinist and conductor. He Zi-yu is a student at the Mozarteum Salzburg. His mentor, Paul Roczek praised him as "becoming a world class violinist". Roczek even taught He four sessions a week though he usually only gave lessons to undergraduates. Roczek says He is the most gifted child he has ever seen in his five decades of music teaching, and the student has a talent to capture the features in music and express it well. He Zi-yu started learning the violin aged 5 and has won many prizes. Critics described him as one who "broke the awkward situation when Chinese violinists missed the championship so many times". This is Special English. Traveling to space and returning to earth using a parachute will soon become available for the larger public in China. Space Vision, a Beijing-based company, released China's first ever space parachuting suit recently. In the next few months, the high-tech company will test related equipment, and recruit more parachuting volunteers for training. The first three challengers are an entrepreneur, a woman parachutist championship and an aircraft engineer. The challengers will soar into the stratosphere in a high-tech balloon, and return to earth using a parachute. The especially customized suit is equipped with radar and ground-based monitoring and operation systems, as well as space-to-ground communication and image transmission systems. The company says many technical experts have endorsed the feasibility of the commercial tour, and China's flight system technology for manned spacesuits is mature enough for such projects. The company hopes to lead the growing domestic commercial aerospace sector by starting with space parachuting, and gradually establish a path for the public to travel in space. The space parachuting trip will cost around 500,000 yuan, roughly 77,000 U.S. dollars. The commercial project will be launched in Sanya in Hainan province, where the tropical island has ocean and space resources, clean air and a space launch center. You're listening to Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. Elderly people often forget things, but robots never do. （全文见周六微信。）

Transhumanist and neurosurgeon Dr Sergio Canavero shares his big plans for 2017, which include a sharp knife, some polyethylene glycol, and a pair of human heads.

El neurocirujano Sergio Canavero, director del grupo de Neuromodulación avanzado de Turín y reconocido mundialmente por su polémica propuesta de realizar el trasplante de cabeza en humanos, publicó recientemente una imagen de un mono al que se le practicó este procedimiento. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Con la llegada de la primavera, empiezan a poblarse los campos y los sitios verdes con un montón de flores llenas de polen que nos hacen estornudar mucho. Pero, además, es el momento en el que las abejas polinizan las plantitas, lo cual es necesario para la sostenibilidad de la agricultura en todo el mundo. Ahora, un estudio publicado en Nature ha descubierto que estos pequeños animales –que están en peligro de extinción– se sienten atraídos por el néctar que contiene pesticidas neonicotinoides. Carlos Giner nos contará lo muy preocupados que están los científicos y la población en general por los efectos negativos que tienen estos pesticidas en la búsqueda de alimento de las abejas y en la salud de sus colonias. Además de este preocupante asunto, también habrá tiempo para hablar del color de la orina, muy importante para saber si andamos bien o mal por dentro; de por qué los mosquitos –los primos feos de las abejas- prefieren picar a unos sí y a otros no; del misterio resuento de las dunas de la luna de Titán y, en general, de muchas incógnitas resueltas esta semana llenita de casos paradigmáticos. Uno de ellos, que analizará Álvaro López en profundidad tiene que ver con un caso que el plantea con una pregunta: en un hipotético “trasplante de cabeza”, cómo se llamaría a esto: ¿cambio de cuerpo o de cabeza?. Y es que según las declaraciones de un médico italiano, más conocido como el neurocientífico Sergio Canavero, él mismo realizará el primer trasplante de cabeza en el año 2017. Además de las dificultades técnicas que entraña tan complicada operación, están todas aquellas dudas éticas que plantea ante semejante quimera utópica. Y todas ellas son las que saldrán a la palestra en este último programa, que cerrará con el brevísimo repaso de la mano de Andrea Arnal sobre los resultados de la VII Encuesta de Percepción Social de la Ciencia y la Tecnología presentados la semana pasada por la Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT). Si quieres más, engánchate a nuestro programa y disfruta de una hora de siensia lokah en nuestro podcast. Si eres más tradicional, escúchanos en Radio Ritmo Getafe, en la 99.9 FM, o búscanos en CuacFM, Eco Leganés, RadioIris 7 y Radiópolis Sevilla ?

Ostatnio powstał spory medialny szum wokół Metal Gear Solid V. Dr Sergio Canavero, znany włoski neurochirurg, stał się obiektem plotek, według których jest zaangażowany w promocję gry. Przyglądamy się wnikliwie całej sprawie i dyskutujemy o jej ewentualnych następstwach. A stąd już niedaleka droga do rozmowy o transhumaniźmie, co podsycają dodatkowo niedawne zapowiedzi Deus Ex: Mankind Divided i Call of Duty: Black Ops III. Nie jest to jednak jedyny poruszany przez nas temat. Jak zwykle komentujemy również wybrane nowinki branżowe, w tym zapowiedź Total War: Warhammer, GexN zaś zrecenzuje jedną z...Przeczytaj całość

  In 2017, Valery Spiridonov hopes to become the first human to have his head transplanted onto a new body. We talk to Val, his would-be surgeon Sergio Canavero, and Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist about the process. Then, Motherboard's staff talks about Cookie Clicker, our new office obsession. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Topic covered on today's episode of Mind Set Daily "Human Head Transplants Now a Reality?" Human head transplants? A Neurosurgeon says ‘we have the technology. An Italian neuroscientist says that human head transplants are possible using currently available medical techniques. And he's setting up a project to prove it. Dr. Sergio Canavero, who works for the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, published his proposal in the medical journal Surgical Neurology International —and he's calling it the "first human head transplantation with spinal linkage. "The greatest technical hurdle to such an endeavor, he says, is the reconnection of the donor's and recipient's spinal cords. He claims advances in cell and nerve engineering mean surgeons can now theoretically fuse a human spinal cord. We've become accustomed to science fiction predicting our future in the way of gadgets, but it now looks like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein may have been just as much of an early look into future of medical science as fictional tricorders were a precursor to iPhones. In regards to the ethics of human brain transplantation, Canavero concludes his study by saying that he has not addressed the ethical aspects of the head transplants. But he concedes that it must be faced. Sure there are moral and ethical implications to be considered, but no matter how look at it you got to admit the story is a real "head turner" just think about it.. Find out more by listening to this episode! News Story Link News Clip Link Support Mind Set Central Suscribe or donate