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Lifeboat News #94

#94

Lifeboat News

This issue published on 05/01/10. Copyright 2010 Lifeboat Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

2010 Humanity+ Summit

We have further improved our "H+ Summit @ Harvard — The Rise Of The Citizen Scientist lineup" to include: Itamar Arel, Ed Boyden, Aubrey de Grey, George Dvorsky, Alexandra Elbakyan, Ben Goertzel, Noah Goodman, Andrew Hessel, James Hughes, Joseph P. Jackson, Morris Johnson, Ray Kurzweil, John "Pathfinder" Lester, Jeff Lieberman, Raymond McCauley, Pieter J. Mosterman, Ramez Naam, David Orban, David Pearce, Mridula "Millie" Kumari Ray, Melanie Swan, Alexei Turchin, Natasha Vita-More, and Justyna Zander.
 
Register at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6488065...41206940.

Working Together

Our existential risk programs discussion interface has been improved. Join the discussion at http://lifeboat.com/ex/programs
 
Also, if you wish to post to our blog, send an email to [email protected] with the subject "Lifeboat Foundation blog".

Tribute

Our Wesley du Charme was cryopreserved after a long battle with cancer.
 
We will miss him.
 
Read his bio at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.wesley.m.du.charme
 
Learn more about his cryopreservation at http://www.alcornews.org/weblog/2010/04...ent.html

Breakthroughs

Our Anirban Bandyopadhyay has developed a molecular computer that mimics the human brain. It can solve complex problems and even heal itself.
 
Learn more at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36788441/ns...ovation/
 
Our Kattesh Katti has developed a new cancer detection and therapy method using engineered gold nanoparticles.
 
Learn more at http://som.missouri.edu/Alumni/News80.aspx

Blog

Keith Curtis joins our blog team with the post "Software and the Singularity" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/software-and-t...gularity

Fannie Mae

Fannie Mae doubles their donation to the Lifeboat Foundation. Thanks Fannie Mae!
 
http://lifeboat.com/ex/donor.dollar.list#fanniemae

Papers

Read "Demographic Consequences of Defeating Aging" by our Leonid A. Gavrilov and Natalia S. Gavrilova at http://longevity-science.org/Projection...2010.pdf

Special Reports

Read "On the Principles of Economics & Evolution: A Survival Guide for the Inhabitants of Small Islands, Including the Inhabitants of the Small Island of Earth" by our Matt Funk at http://lifeboat.com/ex/reports#on_the_p...volution

Growing Membership

Recent donations/pledges we have received since the last newsletter:
 
Willard Wells: $467, Benjamin R. Hoffman: $255, Michael Anissimov: $85, Miron Cuperman: $85, Michael Dickey: $85, Jason Gaverick Matheny: $85, Mads Haahr: $85, Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85, Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85, Kenneth P. Weiss: $85, Matthew L. McGuirl: $25, Frank C. Adamek: $25, Rick Hubbard: $25, Anonymous: $20, Ronald Amos: $10, David Carter: $10, Rebecca R. Cooper: $10, Christopher Dilkus: $10, James Doerhing: $10, Thomas Dolphin: $10, Stephen Fleming: $10, George Garrett: $10, Charles Hawk: $10, Aaron Mayzes: $10, Linus Petersson: $10, John N. Philipps (Jack): $10, Rhonda Stevenson: $10, BeeDictionary: $5, and Golf Tournament Signs: $5.
 
Our Join Us page at https://lifeboat.com/ex/join.us now allows you to pay for your membership anywhere from monthly to every ten years.