Lifeboat Foundation: Safeguarding Humanity

Feb 7 - Ben "Fenn" Lipkowitz joins our Human Trajectories Board. Fenn has created a civilization seed with SKDB.

Feb 6 - Domenico Praticó joins our Biotech/Medical Board. His research area is clinical pharmacology with a special focus on the cellular and molecular aspects of cell oxidative biology and a particular interest in small molecules such as bioactive oxidized lipids.

Feb 5 - Ryan Calo, Residential Fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, Stanford Law School, joins our Legal Board.

Feb 5 - Kate Stone, founder of Novalia which creates Interactive Printed Media (IPM), joins our Media & Arts Board.

Feb 4 - Read Kinds of Minds by our J. Storrs "Josh" Hall.

Jan 31 - Yi Qi, who is working on artificial kagome spin ice, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.

Jan 31 - Michael McAlpine, whose energy-harvesting rubber sheets could power pacemakers, joins our Nanotechnology Board.

Jan 31 - Jerry Shih, who showed that brain waves can "write" on a computer, joins our Neuroscience Board.

Jan 30 - We thank Fannie Mae for their generous donation.

Jan 30 - Scott Saponas, who is developing muscle-computer interfaces, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.

Jan 29 - Nicolas Pinto, who demonstrated a better way for computers to "see", joins our Robotics/AI Board.

Jan 28 - Karl MacDorman joins our Robotics/AI Board. His research interests include android science, machine learning, social robotics, sensor motor representation, symbol grounding and symbol emergence, computational neuroscience, and computer security.

Jan 28 - Dale Purves, coeditor of Neuroscience, Fourth Edition, joins our Neuroscience Board.

Jan 26 - Amir Shapiro, whose robots climb up the wall, joins our Robotics/AI Board.

Jan 20 - Benjamin Wolozin, who discovered that subjects taking the cholesterol lowering medicines termed statins have a lower incidence of Alzheimer's disease, joins our Neuroscience Board.

Jan 19 - Hanna Tuomisto, who coauthored Assessing the environmental impacts of contrasting farming systems, joins our Sustainability Board.

Jan 18 - Xue Han, who is developing laser-controlled humans, joins our Neuroscience Board.

Jan 18 - Bre Pettis joins our Engineering Board. Bre is cofounder of Makerbot, a company that produces robots that make things.

Jan 18 - Jean van den Elsen, whose new technique detects proteins that make us age, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Jan 16 - David Harrison, who gave elderly mice the human equivalent of thirteen extra years of life, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Jan 16 - Sylvain Martel, who is harnessing bacteria as drug mules which are steered through human bodies using magnetic fields, joins our Nanotechnology Board.

Jan 15 - Jiping Huang, who is developing a liquid invisibility cloak, joins our Physics Board.

Jan 15 - Brian Chow, who is silencing brain cells with multiple colors of light, joins our Neuroscience Board.

Jan 15 - Diana Reiss, internationally recognized researcher in animal cognition and communication, joins our Human-Nonhuman Relationship Board.

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