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LIFEBOAT NEWS
Jul 2 -
Jeffrey Collins,
Director,
OUSA, International Programs,
Oglethorpe University, joins our Futurists Board.
Jul 1 -
Read
Planetary Messenger by our
Jacob D. Haqq-Misra. This novel explores the social, scientific,
and spiritual consequences of discovering another planet in the galaxy
just like our Earth.
Jul 1 -
Karim Medjad joins our Legal
Board. Karim is Professor of Law at H.E.C Paris, the most prestigious
Business School in France.
Jul 1 -
Read
issue #83 of Lifeboat News!
Jul 1 -
Bud Levin joins our Futurists
Board. Bud is Vice Chairman of the FBI/PFI Futures Working Group,
Commander of the Waynesboro (VA) Police Department's Policy and Planning
Bureau, and Department Head of Psychology, Blue Ridge
Community College in Weyers Cave, Virginia.
Jul 1 -
Michael Dickey joins our blog team with the post
Electron Beam Free Form Fabrication process -
progress toward self sustaining structures.
Jun 28 -
Bruce Lloyd, Emeritus Professor of
Strategic Management, London South Bank University, London, United
Kingdom, joins our Business Board.
Jun 27 -
Diana Muir joins our Education
Board. Diana
is the founder of the
Hawking Institute and of the
Personal Learning
Center, International.
Jun 27 -
Our
WorldFuture 2009
lineup has been improved to include
Craig Bettles, Peter Bishop, Arthur L. Caplan, Joseph F. Coates, José Cordeiro,
William Crossman,
Irene J. Dabrowski, Jay Gary, Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon,
Terry Grim,
Linda Groff,
Arthur Harkins,
Don Heathfield,
Jay Herson,
Thomas J. Lombardo,
Gary Marx,
Amy Oberg, Ian D. Pearson, Rick Smyre,
Stephen F. Steele,
Don Tapscott, and
Michael G. Zey.
Jun 27 -
Arthur Harkins,
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Policy and
Administration, Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology, and Faculty
Director, Graduate Certificate in Innovation Studies at the University
of Minnesota, joins our Education Board.
Jun 25 -
Mark Nall,
Manager of the NASA Lunar Mapping and Modeling Project at Marshall Space
Flight Center, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Jun 22 -
Simon Benita joins our
Biotech/Medical Board. Simon's
drug-delivery system, which is based on
proprietary nanotechnology, is designed to enable oral formulations to
bypass intestinal and liver metabolic filters, thereby increasing their
bioavailability.
Jun 19 -
Samuel Lai,
who is working to
"tighten" the body's protective coating, joins our
Biotech/Medical Board.
Jun 19 -
Ennio Tasciotti, who is
developing a
bionanoscaffold to repair shattered bones and avoid amputation,
joins our Biotech/Medical and Nanotechnology Boads.
Jun 16 -
Jim Davidson joins our blog team with the post
Microbe on Ice.
Jun 14 -
Kathryn Denning, author of
Ten Thousand Revolutions: Conjectures about Civilizations,
joins our Astrobiology/SETI Board.
Jun 9 -
Denise L. Herzing and Lori Marino
cofound our new Human-Nonhuman Relationship Board. This board focuses
on current and future planetary conditions that impact non-human
species.
The Human-Nonhuman Relationship Board discusses scientific and ethical
considerations in
human-nonhuman relationships and the interdependence and preservation at
the individual, population, species, and cultural levels. This board
will be enhancing our BioPreserver
program to make sure that cultures of nonhumans are preserved as
well as preserving their genetic material.
Jun 9 -
Tihamer "Tee" Toth-Fejel joins our blog team with the post
Be Careful What You Wish For.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
WorldFuture 2009 will be
held July 17-19, 2009 at the Chicago Hilton in Chicago, Illinois. Our Craig Bettles, Peter Bishop, Arthur L. Caplan, Joseph F. Coates,
Jeffrey Collins,
José Cordeiro,
William Crossman,
Irene J. Dabrowski, Jay Gary, Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon,
Terry Grim,
Linda Groff,
Arthur Harkins,
Don Heathfield,
Jay Herson,
Bud Levin,
Thomas J. Lombardo,
Bruce Lloyd,
Gary Marx,
Karim Medjad,
Diana Muir,
Amy Oberg, Ian D. Pearson, Rick Smyre,
Stephen F. Steele,
Don Tapscott, and
Michael G. Zey
will be
speaking/presenting papers.
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“See my blog on Lifeboat Foundation's site on NASA's EBF3 process - literally 'printing' metal parts - http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=523”
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24 June 2009, 9:14 pm
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“Be careful what you wish for [Bioethics.net article featuring the Lifeboat Foundation's T. Toth-Fejel] #nanotechnology http://bit.ly/A7tVr”
georgedvorsky (George Dvorsky)
21 June 2009, 10:17 am
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FEATURED STORIES
Jason Vaughn Clark,
who created a
monolithic comb drive nanomachine, joins our Engineering
Board and Nanotechnology Board. This nanoscale motorized positioning
device can be used in biological and engineering fields.
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We have College classroom tested coursework
available which was developed by
Gary Scott Danford, Ph.D., University at Buffalo, The State University
of New York.
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IBM, Microsoft, and Sun employees learn how you can get your
membership fees and donations to Lifeboat Foundation
matched by your employer! (This
includes retired IBM employees as well!)
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Maria
Entraigues joins our Media & Arts Board.
Maria's written songs and performed as a
soloist singer
for several feature films including
Rush Hour 2 (with Jackie Chan),
After the Sunset (with Pierce Brosnan),
The Magnificent Ambersons
(with Madeleine Stowe),
Picking up the Pieces (with Woody Allen),
Diamond Hunters (with Alyssa Milano), and
A Walk in the Clouds
(with Keanu Reeves).
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Participate in our poll
Top 10 Existential Risks!
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Sylvia Engdahl becomes our
MySpace webmaster. She has dramatically upgraded and improved our
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Ed Begley Jr.,
actor, environmentalist, and founder of
Begley's Best, joins our
Sustainability Board and donates to the Lifeboat Foundation. |
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