Lifeboat Foundation: Safeguarding Humanity

May 8 - Fuyu Tamanoi, who has developed nanoimpellers which are the first demonstration of controlled and on-demand release of anticancer drugs using mechanized nanoparticles in living cells, joins our Biotech/Medical Board and Nanotechnology Board.

May 6 - Graham K. Whitehead, author of New Technology, New Society, joins our Futurists Board.

May 6 - Read issue #70 of Lifeboat News!

May 5 - Read Brain-Computer Interfaces for Manipulating Dreams by our Michael Anissimov.

May 5 - Martin Dominik, who discovered our solar system's "look-alike", joins our Cosmology Board.

May 5 - Peter J. Bentley, editor of Evolutionary Design by Computers, joins our Robotics/AI Board. Peter is also author of the popular science book The Book of Numbers: The Secret of Numbers and How They Changed the World.

May 4 - Paul Richmond, author of A GPU Framework for the Real-Time Simulation and Interaction of Massive Agent Based Systems, joins our Robotics/AI Board.

May 4 - Summer Johnson, author of Ethics in Nanomedicine: a Needs-Assessment and Proposals for the Future, joins our Ethics Board.

May 4 - Read Science-Fiction Writers Help Government Prepare for Attacks of the Future which describes efforts by our Arlan Andrews, Greg Bear, and Jerry Pournelle.

May 3 - On May 31, Daniel Dennett and Ray Kurzweil will be speaking about What it Means to be Human at Skirball Center, NYU which is part of the NY08 World Science Festival in New York City.

May 2 - Watch Brian Cox's TED talk What Really Goes on at the Large Hadron Collider.

May 1 - Read AI Meets the Metaverse: Teachable AI Agents Living in Virtual Worlds by Ben Goertzel.

Apr 30 - T. Randall Lee, who coauthored Rise of the Nanomachine: The Evolution of a Revolution in Medicine, joins our Nanotechnology Board.

Apr 29 - Brian H. Wilcox, Principle Investigator, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, joins our Robotics/AI Board. He currently heads the ATHLETE project. This ginormous robotic vehicle called ATHLETE (All-Terrain Hex-Legged Extra-Terrestrial Explorer) measures about 7.5 meters wide, with legs more than 6 meters long. It could act essentially like a turtle, carrying the astronauts' living quarters around on its back. Watch a prototype in action!

Apr 29 - C.S. "Buzz" Holling joins our Sustainability Board. Buzz is one of the conceptual founders of ecological economics. Ecological economics is a transdisciplinary field of academic research that addresses the dynamic and spatial interdependence between human economies and natural ecosystems. Its main focus is the "scale" conundrum: how to operate an economy within the ecological constraints of the biosphere. Ecological economics brings together and connects different disciplines, within the natural and social sciences but especially between these broad areas.

Buzz also founded the Resilience Alliance, is founding Editor-in-Chief of Ecology and Society, and coedited Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems.

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