Due to warnings by Stephen Hawking and
others, the Doomsday Clock has been moved to five minutes before
midnight.
Learn about the dawn of a second "nuclear age".
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Earn $5 million by helping catch this nuclear terrorist!
FBI info!
News!
Video of him teaching class! |
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LIFEBOAT NEWS 
May 16 -
Pete Mandik,
author of
The Neurophilosophy of Subjectivity,
An Epistemological Theory of Consciousness?, and
Varieties of Representation in Evolved and Embodied Neural
Networks, joins our Neuroscience Board.
May 15 -
Samuel H. Barondes joins our Neuroscience Board. He is the author
of
Molecules and Mental Illness,
Mood Genes: Hunting for
Origins of Mania and Depression, and
Better Than Prozac:
Creating the
Next Generation of Psychiatric Drugs.
May 14 -
Robert B. Cialdini joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
In the field of influence and persuasion, Bob is the most cited social
psychologist in the world today.
He authored
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.
May 14 -
Peter H. Kahn, Jr., author of
The Human Relationship with Nature:
Development and Culture and
Nature and Moral Development,
joins our Sustainability Board.
May 14 -
Li-Hai Tan, who
showed that a person dyslexic in English
may not be dyslexic in Chinese
and vice versa,
joins our Neuroscience Board.
May 13 -
Artificial heart pioneer
Tofy Mussivand joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
May 13 -
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, author of
Some Pitfalls in the Philosophical Foundations of Nanoethics
and
The Mechanization of the Mind and editor of
Self-Deception and Paradoxes of Rationality,
joins our Ethics Board.
May 13 -
Sonia M. Suter, author of
The Allure and Peril of Genetic Exceptionalism: Do We Need Special
Genetics Legislation?, joins our Ethics Board.
May 12 -
Saskia Sassen, author of
A Sociology of Globalization and
Cities in a World Economy, joins our Human Trajectories
Board.
Saskia coined the term
global city.
May 12 -
Anind K. Dey,
coauthor of
Managing Personal Information Disclosure in Ubiquitous Computing
Environments,
Designer Support for Context Monitoring and Control, and
SiteView: Tangibly Programming Active Environments with Predictive
Visualization, joins our Information Sciences Board.
May 11 -
Scott Reif, the
author of
The Future of Advanced Transportation, joins our Futurists
Board.
May 11 -
World-renowned thinker, writer, and speaker on the future,
Joe Coates, joins our Futurists Board.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
On May 31, 2008,
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.
Don't Panic! We have found
The Ultimate Answer to The Great Question of Life, the Universe, and
Everything. The answer is a
WorldFuture 2008 lineup with over 42 Lifeboat
Foundation Scientific Advisory Board members.
Lawrence A. Baines,
Raj Bawa,
Craig Bettles,
Peter C. Bishop,
Dennis M. Bushnell,
Josh Calder,
Arthur L.
Caplan,
Joe Coates,
José
Luis Cordeiro,
William J.
Cosgrove,
William
Crossman,
Irene
J. Dabrowski,
Yasmin Dada-Jones,
Devin Fidler,
Medard Gabel,
Ashok K.
Gangadean,
Jay Gary,
Jerry Glenn,
Ted
Gordon,
Terry Grim,
Linda Groff,
William E.
Halal,
Don
Heathfield,
Jay Herson,
Michael
Jackson,
Carl Jensen III,
Shun-jie Ji,
Tom
Lombardo,
Gary Marx,
Jim Mathews,
Kenneth L.
Nichols,
Amy Oberg,
Jonathan Peck,
John L.
Petersen,
Carrie Rathsack,
Scott Reif,
Sheila R. Ronis,
Karlin Sloan,
Rick Smyre,
Stephen F.
Steele,
Mike Treder,
Thomas F. Valone,
Verne Wheelwright,
James Wright,
Mariann
Zanardo,
and
Michael Zey
will be speaking at
WorldFuture 2008:
Seeing the Future Through New Eyes at the
Hilton Washington, Washington, D.C., from
July 26 to July 28, 2008.
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Karlin Sloan,
founder and CEO of
Karlin Sloan & Company and author of
Smarter, Faster, Better: Strategies for Effective, Enduring, and
Fulfilled Leadership, joins our Business Board. |
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Read
Singularities and Nightmares by
David Brin.
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David Brin announces that his
next book will feature the Lifeboat
Foundation.
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We now have a
quote by
Garry Kasparov on our Quotes page.
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Read
Sir Arthur C. Clarke in 3001: Don't Panic!
which contains the Arthur C. Clarke interview
by our
José Luis
Cordeiro.
Arthur C. Clarke's final novel is
The Last Theorem, coauthored with our
Frederik Pohl. It will be released late in 2008.
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Julia Margo,
author of
Make
Me a Criminal: Preventing Youth Crime and
coeditor of
Politics for a New Generation,
joins our Ethics Board.
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We have launched a
LinkedIn
group for our
Scientific Advisory Board members.
The goal of this group is to help members:
- Reach other members of the Lifeboat Foundation Scientific
Advisory
Boards.
- Accelerate careers/business through referrals from Lifeboat
Foundation Scientific Advisory Boards LinkedIn group members.
- Know more than a name — view rich professional profiles from
fellow Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Boards members.
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Our Scientifc Advisory Board member
Phil Putman develops a white paper for
An Orbiting Magnetic Arrest System
for Rocket-Free Transportation to Earth Orbit.
Read his
ISDC presentation on
the subject! |
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Having problems with suicide bombers, cyber hackers, and/or car bombs?
Lifeboat Foundation has the solution! The
Borg have joined our
Counterterrorism Board! (This is worth a media
mention!) |
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