Cyborg-lit: Book about transhumanism wins Wellcome prize

LONDON (AP) — A book that explores the quest to defeat death with technology has won Britain’s medically themed Wellcome Book Prize. Mark O’Connell’s “To Be a Machine” beat five other finalists Monday for the 30,000-pound ($41,000) prize, which aims to bridge the gap between literature and science. The Irish writer visited cryogenic labs, Silicon […]