Simon Davis
What Happens if You Vote and Die Before Election Day?
Let's say you send in an absentee ballot and then you drop dead. Does your vote still count?
How Living People Are Wrongfully Pronounced Dead
Each year, about 1,000 living people are erroneously added to the Death Master File, a database of every American who has died since 1936.
Every Human Skull Is a Beautiful Snowflake
A new exhibit at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia explores the beauty and individuality of human skulls.
Why the Future of Food Is Bugs
A new documentary hopes to convince you that eating insects can be delicious and nutritious.
We Asked a Law Professor Whether the Government Could Really Ban Rough Sex
A complicated case concerning a BDSM relationship between college students ended with a judge saying that kinky sex is not protected by the Constitution. Is the government about to come for your whips?
The Bizarre Crimes of Detroit's Underground Cadaver Dealer
Arthur Rathburn is accused of hacking up bodies with chainsaws and selling diseased body parts to medical conferences—just one example of the shady ongoings in the cadaver dealing industry.
How to Freeze Your Brain and Live Forever (Maybe)
Companies have refined cryonics technology to better preserve peoples' brains after death. But so far, no one knows how to turn a cryogenically frozen brain back into a living person.
We Talked to a Woman Who Helps People Deal with Being Abducted By Aliens
Kathleen Marden is the director of experiencer research at the Mutual UFO Network, where she works on behalf of people who have had extraterrestrial experiences.
Death Is Way More Complicated When You're Polyamorous
Families tend to fight over inheritance and end-of-life decisions, but those squabbles get way weirder when you throw an extra boyfriend or girlfriend into the mix.
'Save the Planet, Kill Yourself': The Contentious History of the Church of Euthanasia
"Antihumanist" activist Chris Korda spent the 90s campaigning for the extinction of humanity. We asked her why she hates people so much.
How to Have Sex on Your Deathbed
Just because you're slowly dying of a terminal illness doesn't mean you're not thinking about sex.