11th Annual Thought Leaders Consortium
The 11th Annual Thought Leaders Consortium: Next Generation Clinical
Management of Chronic Neuroimmune Disorders will be held October 20–21
in Seattle, Washington.
Learn more at
https://plminstitute.org/events/tlc-202...isorders
12th Constructal Law Conference
The 12th Constructal Law Conference: Freedom, Design, and Evolution will
be held September 21–22 in Torino, Italy.
The Constructal Law governs all phenomena of design evolution in Nature,
bio and non-bio, human made and not human made.
Our Adrian Bejan will be speaking.
Learn more at
https://www.symposium.it/en/events/2023...nference
20th Anniversary AREDAY Summit
The 20th Anniversary AREDAY Summit: Climate, Democracy, and Human
Security is being held on October 6–9 in Boulder, Colorado.
Our Sylvia Earle and Varushka Franceschi will be speaking.
Learn more at https://areday.net
20th Reinventing Space Conference 2023
The 20th Reinventing Space Conference 2023 will be held October 11–13 in
Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Our Stuart Eves and David S. Germroth will be speaking.
Learn more at https://www.bis-space.com/reinventingspace
25th WFSF World Conference
The 25th World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) World Conference is
being held October 25–26 in Paris, France and in cyberspace.
This conference is being organized by our Rosa Alegria, Alethia Baena,
and Dana Klisanin.
Our Rosa Alegria, José Luis Cordeiro, and Seren Dalkiran will be
speaking.
Learn more at https://wfsf.org/wfsf-world-regional-conferences
2023 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the IMF
The 2023 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) will be held October 9–15 in Marrakech, Morocco.
Learn more at https://www.worldbank.org/en/meetings/s...h/annual
Advances in DNA Methylation Analysis
Advances in DNA Methylation Analysis: The New Frontier for Clinical
Diagnostics will be held for free on September 26 in cyberspace.
Learn more at
https://plminstitute.org/events/advance...gnostics
Biocene 2023
Biocene 2023 “Biomimicry: Transforming Materials” will be held October
18–20 in Cleveland, Ohio and in cyberspace.
Our Ali Dhinojwala will be speaking.
Learn more at https://oai.org/event/biocene-2023
Climate Week NYC 2023
Climate Week NYC 2023 will be held September 17–24 in New York City. This event brings together sustainability leaders from government,
busines, academia, and civil society from around the world.
Learn more at
https://www.nyserda.ny.gov/Featured-Sto...NYC-2023
Disasters Expo USA
Disasters Expo USA: Prepare | Respond | Recover will be held September
27–28 in Anaheim, California.
Learn more at https://www.disasterexpocalifornia.com
Education for Spaceship Earth
The workshop Education for Spaceship Earth is being held September 21–23
in Brussels and in cyberspace.
The workshop’s context centers around one notion: the noosphere! This
term was first introduced in 1923 in Paris. The term is derived from the
Greek word nous, meaning ‘mind’. It points to a sphere — a dimension,
phase, or dynamic attractor — where our collective consciousness is
coalesced.
Learn more at https://buckminstercollege.org/educators-workshop
Ending Aging Forum 2023
The Ending Aging Forum 2023 will be held for free September 21–22 in
cyberspace.
Our Jean M. Hébert and Evan Snyder will be speaking.
Learn more at https://www.sens.org/endingagingforum-2023
Future Black America Conference
The Future Black America Conference will be held September 18–20 in
cyberspace. Our Reynaldo Anderson, Yul Anderson, and Jerome C. Glenn
will be speaking.
Learn more at https://www.futureofblackamerica.com
International 2023 Mars Society Convention
The International 2023 Mars Society Convention is being held on October
5–8 in Tempe, Arizona.
Our Rick Tumlinson, Sara Walker, and Robert Zubrin will be speaking.
Learn more at https://www.marssociety.org
International Conference on History
The Department of History at Berhampur University has organized an
International Conference on History on October 3–4 in Odisha, India.
Our Rekha Pande is giving the keynote address.
Learn more at
https://www.facebook.com/p/Department-o...62371025
Liberty in Our Lifetime
Liberty in Our Lifetime will be held October 14–15 in Prague, Czech
Republic and in cyberspace.
Our Sebastian Brunemeier, José Luis Cordeiro, and Mark Edge will be
speaking.
Learn more at https://libertyinourlifetime.org
Science Summit at UNGA78
The Science Summit at UNGA78 will be held September 12–29 in New York
City and in cyberspace.
Our Joe Pelton and Michael Potter will be speaking about Cosmic Hazards
and New Approaches to Planetary Defense from 1 pm to 3 pm on September
21.
Our Joe Pelton will be speaking about Space and Sustainability: Space
Compacts to Achieve the UN 2030 Space Agenda from 9 am to 11 am on
September 21.
Our Scott Madry and Joe Pelton will be speaking about Space Systems,
Artificial Intelligence, and Quantum Computing: Achieving the SDGs from
9 am to 12 pm on September 25.
These are all online sessions and are free.
Learn more at https://sciencesummitunga.com
The Space 18th SDG at United Nations General Assembly 78 2023
Watch the live stream of The Space 18th SDG at United Nations General
Assembly 78 2023 on September 15th starting at 9:15 AM EDT.
Sign their petition.
Learn more at https://space18thsdg.space
TEDxDeerPark
Our Corrinne Graham is speaking at TEDxDeerPark in Brentwood, New York
on October 28.
Her talk is “Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability: A
Solution to the Problem of Misinformation and Disinformation in Our
Society”.
Learn more at https://www.tedxdeerpark.com
Water Environment Federation (WEF) 96th Annual Conference
The Water Environment Federation (WEF) 96th Annual Conference will be
held September 30–October 4 in Chicago, Illinois.
Learn more at http://www.weftec.org
Papers
Read “Artificial intelligence is ineffective and potentially harmful for
fact checking coauthored” by our Fil Menczer at
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10800
Read “Sustainability through Global Patterns of 60-fold Organization:
Psycho-social implications of fullerenes for coherence, integrity and
identity of a higher order” by our Anthony Judge at
https://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs20..._org.php
Read “Why We Don’t Have AGI Yet” coauthored by our Peter Voss at
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio..._AGI_Yet
Videos
Watch the TED Talk “Machines That Think: The Future of AI” by our James Canton at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOaLgJ3hYt4
Blog
Recent interesting blog posts include:
“3D-printed ‘living material’ could clean up contaminated water” by Saúl
Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/3d-pr...ed-water
“A boy saw 17 doctors over 3 years for chronic pain. ChatGPT found the
diagnosis” by Raphael Ramos at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/a-boy...iagnosis
“A mystery company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires has purchased
tens of thousands of acres of land for more than $800 million to build a
new city near San Francisco” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/08/a-mys...rancisco
“A Researcher Just Accidentally Developed A Battery That Could Last A
Lifetime” by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/a-res...lifetime
“AI Turns Brain Waves into Spoken Words” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/08/ai-tu...en-words
“Apple’s iPhone 15 feels like a refined flagship with smart camera
improvements” by Gemechu Taye at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/apple...ovements
“The cofounder of Google’s AI division DeepMind says everybody will have
their own AI-powered ‘chief of staff’ over the next five years” by
Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/the-c...ve-years
“DeepMind’s ChatGPT-Like Brain for Robots Lets Them Learn From the
Internet” by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/deepm...internet
“Detecting a ‘Living Pulse’ in Microbes is a First Step Toward
Discovering a Universal Biosignature” by Dirk Schulze-Makuch at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/08/detec...ignature
“Elon Musk says video and voice calls are coming to X with a ‘unique’
experience” by Omuterema Akhahenda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/08/elon-...perience
“Filipino engineer invents easier-to-use microscope the size of a
keychain, wins Dyson prize” by Omuterema Akhahenda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/filip...on-prize
“FSD V12 Takeaways — A New Era (Elon’s Sneak Peek)” by Ken Otwell at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/08/fsd-v...eak-peek
“Future computers could be built using proteins that make up cells” by
Dan Breeden at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/08/futur...up-cells
“Hackers breached International Criminal Court’s systems last week” by
Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/hacke...ast-week
“Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago” by Arthur Brown
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/human...ears-ago
“Intel Introduces Thunderbolt 5 Connectivity Standard” by Kelvin
Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/intel...standard
“Is Precognition Real? Cornell University Lab Releases Powerful New
Evidence that the Human Mind can Perceive the Future” by Dan Breeden at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/is-pr...e-future
“Math Reveals Secrets of Synchronization in Complex Systems” by Jose
Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/math-...-systems
“Meta Is Developing a New, More Powerful AI System as Technology Race
Escalates” by Dan Kummer at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/meta-...scalates
“Musk’s Neuralink to start human trial of brain implant for paralysis
patients” by Ken Otwell at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/musks...patients
“Nanobots can now enter brain cells to spy on what they’re doing” by Dan
Kummer at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/nanob...re-doing
“New 4D metamaterial could advance quantum computing” by Paul Battista
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/08/new-4...omputing
“New bionic hand allows amputees to effortlessly control fingers” by
Liliana Alfair at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/08/new-b...-fingers
“New physics-based self-learning machines could replace current
artificial neural networks and save energy” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez
Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/new-p...e-energy
“Nineteen researchers say AI is not sentient—not yet” by Jose Ruben
Rodriguez Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/08/ninet...-not-yet
“Octopuses and squid are masters of RNA editing while leaving DNA
intact” by Omuterema Akhahenda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/octop...a-intact
“Private company wants to clean up space junk with ‘capture bags’ in
Earth orbit” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/08/priva...th-orbit
“Quantum entanglement visualized for the first time ever” by Paul
Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/quant...ime-ever
“Researchers use AI to find new magnetic materials without critical
elements” by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/resea...elements
“Rise of the robots: UN tries to tackle ‘mind-blowing’ growth of AI” by
Kelvin Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/07/rise-...th-of-ai
“Samsung’s assistant Bixby can now speak in your voice and it’s just as
creepy as it sounds” by Raphael Ramos at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/08/samsu...t-sounds
“Scientists Dramatically Extend Cell Lifespan in Anti-Aging
Breakthrough” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/08/scien...kthrough
“Scientists Slowed Down a Chemical Reaction 100 Billion Times to See
What Happens” by Josh Seeherman at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/scien...-happens
“This nano submarine will explore solar system’s icy moons” by Arthur
Brown at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/this-...cy-moons
“This plane could rescue other planes IN FLIGHT!” by Joseph Barney at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/this-...n-flight
“To stave off Alzheimer’s, protect your brain’s mitochondria” by Paul
Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/to-st...chondria
“Ultrathin nanotech promises to help tackle antibiotic resistance” by
Nicholi Avery at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/ultra...sistance
“Unbelievably excited” by Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/08/unbel...xcited-2
“Universe relic: Huge bubble within a web of galaxies found” by Gemechu
Taye at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/unive...es-found
“Was Our Universe Formed Inside the Quantum Chaos of Another Universe’s
Black Hole?” by Dan Breeden at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/was-o...ack-hole
“We BUILT a 4000° Lightsaber Staff (IT’S CORDLESS!)” by Raphael Ramos at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/09/we-bu...cordless
“Why Many Researchers Now See the Brain as a Quantum System” by Quinn
Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/08/why-m...m-system
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