In physics, cryogenics is the study of the production of very low temperature (below −150 °C, −238 °F or 123 K) and the behavior of materials at those temperatures. Rather than the familiar temperature scales of Fahrenheit and Celsius, cryogenicists use the Kelvin (and formerly Rankine) scales. A person who studies elements under extremely cold temperature is called a cryogenicist.

The correct term for this area of scientific endeavor is cryonics.

The Alcor Life Extension Foundation must be staffed by Yankee fans. The Daily News reports that Frozen, a new book by former Alcor executive Larry Johnson, reveals the company's abuse of the frozen body of Ted Williams, the Red Sox star and .400 hitter. Williams's body was apparently kept in a steel tank alongside junk and cardboard boxes, and his head--"gleefully" removed by technicians with no medical certification--was balanced on a can of Bumblebee tuna. In an effort to remove the head from the can (we all get hungry sometimes), one employee whacked at it with a monkey wrench, sending "tiny pieces of frozen head" flying. Johnson, who once tried to sell photos of Williams's corpse online, says that he hopes the book will lead to the fulfillment of Teddy Ballgame's wishes: the major league star expressed in his will a desire for his body to be cremated. http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/?cid=hp:cheatsheet2#cheatrow_9763

 I followed up and found this:

The book, out Tuesday from Vanguard Press, tells how Williams' corpse became "Alcorian A-1949" at the facility, where bodies are kept suspended in liquid nitrogen in case future generations learn how to revive them. Johnson writes that in July 2002, shortly after the Red Sox slugger died at age 83, technicians with no medical certification gleefully photographed and used crude equipment to decapitate the majors' last .400 hitter.

Williams' severed head was then frozen, and even used for batting practice by a technician trying to dislodge it from a tuna fish can.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/10/02/2009-10-02_book_reveals_chilling_details_of_how_cryonic

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When I was a child, my favorite reading material was contained in Mad Magazine.

Then came the National Lampoon.

Now its NY Daily News