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Lifeboat News #100

#100

Lifeboat News

This issue published on 11/01/10. Copyright 2010 Lifeboat Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

2010 Guardian Award Winner

Russell "Rusty" Schweickart is named Lifeboat Foundation 2010 Guardian Award Winner.
 
The Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award is annually bestowed upon a respected scientist or public figure who has warned of a future fraught with dangers and encouraged measures to prevent them.
 
The 2010 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to Russell "Rusty" Schweickart in recognition of his efforts for humans to escape the fate of the dinosaurs. (And thereby prove that we really are smarter than they were.)
 
Learn more at http://lifeboat.com/ex/guardian2010

End of the Year Fundraiser

The Lifeboat Foundation is holding an end of the year fundraiser so we can start next year with a bang! (Matching donors to help with this are greatly appreciated.)
 
With our growing number of members, new educational videos, growing support of conferences (Media Sponsor of the "H+ Summit @ Harvard — The Rise Of The Citizen Scientist", Partner of "The Singularity Summit 2010", Media Partner of the "Second Annual Conference of the American Society for Nanomedicine", will have 9 Lifeboat Foundation speakers at the upcoming "Humanity+ @ Caltech: Redefining Humanity in the Era of Radical Technological Change", etc.), our most active blog ever (which is an official Google News source), growing world news coverage, new reports, updated programs, and a greatly improved web design, our momentum is greater than ever.
 
Our goal is $10,000. Please help us make 2011 our best year yet.
 
Learn more at https://lifeboat.com/ex/end.of.the.year.fundraiser (with informational links to these activities).

Remember: Humanity+ @ Caltech is Early Next Month

Our Gregory Benford, Ryan Bethencourt, Suzanne Gildert, Ben Goertzel, Randal Koene, Amy Li, Michael Rose, Michael Vassar, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking at "Humanity+ @ Caltech: Redefining Humanity in the Era of Radical Technological Change". This conference is scheduled for December 4-5 at the Beckman Institute at Caltech, Los Angeles, California.
 
Learn more at http://humanityplus.org/conferences/

Educational Video

Watch "Transhumanism, Existential Risks, and the AI Physician" by our Kim Solez at http://lifeboat.com/ex/transhumanism.ex...hysician

Blog

Read "TSA and the Coming Great Filter" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2010/11/tsa-an...t-filter
 
Samuel H. Kenyon joins our blog team with the post "Hating Technology is Hating Yourself" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2010/11/hating...yourself
 
Marios Kyriazis joins our blog team with the post "Stoic Philosophy and Human Immortality" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2010/11/stoic-...ortality
 
Martine Rothblatt joins our blog team with the post "Ten Most Transhumanist Words" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2010/10/ten-mo...st-words

Books

Read "Nanoscience Education, Workforce Training, and K-12 Resources" by our Judith Light Feather at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/142005...20053949

2040 Threats

Our Yair Sharan forecasts what will threaten us in 2040 at http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-threaten.html

Growing Membership

Recent donations/pledges we have received since the last newsletter:
 
Alexandru Celac: $200, Richard Yonck: $120, Michael Anissimov: $85, Michael Dickey: $85, Jason Gaverick Matheny: $85, Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85, Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85, Kenneth P. Weiss: $85, Tom Driscoll: $30, Frank C. Adamek: $25, Joshua D. Hill: $25, Rick Hubbard: $25, Matthew L. McGuirl: $25, Anonymous: $20, Ronald Amos: $10, Rebecca R. Cooper: $10, Christopher Dilkus: $10, James Doerhing: $10, Thomas Dolphin: $10, Stephen Fleming: $10, George Garrett: $10, Charles Hawk: $10, Miriam Leis: $10, Aaron Mayzes: $10, John N. Philipps (Jack): $10, Lee Irwin Pringle: $10, Rhonda Stevenson: $10, and Maria Entraigues: $2.
 
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.