Videos
Watch "Blue Beauty: Our Beautiful Earth" at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#bluebeauty
Narration has been added to "Cellular Visions: The Inner Life of a Cell"
at http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#the_inner...f_a_cell
Watch "Did you know?" at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#did_you_know
Watch "How DNA transcription works" at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#how_dna_t...on_works
Watch "RNA interference in action" at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#rna_interference
Watch "A visual trip through the 21st Century" at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#visual_trip
Blog
Ole Peter Galaasen joins our blog team with his first post
at http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=40
Stevan Harnad joins our blog team with his first post
at http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=38
Our most popular blog entry so far has been "'Doomsday' vault design
unveiled" by Ole Peter Galaasen at http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=41
ARC
The Wall Street Journal recently reported at
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1170388...928.html that we have
absorbed the Alliance to Rescue Civilization.
Excerpt from Wall Street Journal article: "It was for that reason that a
few individuals, myself included, started a group called the Alliance to
Rescue Civilization (ARC) several years ago. Its purpose was to start an
archive on the moon that would be a continuously updated international
record of our civilization. That way, if a major catastrophe happens,
the record would survive. Keeping a record on the moon (and perhaps at
one of the poles on this planet) would be like backing up a computer's
hard drive. We would emerge from the chaos knowing who we are in the
fullest sense of the term.
ARC has been absorbed by the Lifeboat Foundation, a group of like-minded
people who are trying to make certain that we can survive a truly awful
world-wide occurrence. They are emphatically not doomsday types. But
they understand that while no skipper goes to sea thinking the boat will
sink, they nonetheless carry life preservers and dinghies. That, after
all, is only prudent. So is starting a self-sufficient colony on the
moon."
SAB Hits 300!
Bud Mishra, coauthor of "Emergency Response Planning for a Potential
Sarin Gas Attack in Manhattan using Agent-based Models", joins our
Scientific Advisory Board which hits 300 members!
You can read his bio at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.bud.mishra
You can learn about the members of our Scientific Advisory Board at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/board (Obviously the 300 people are spread out
over many smaller subboards.)
Reports
Our Scientific Advisory Board members have generated many interesting
reports recently. They include:
"Achieving Human Commitment to Space Colonization: Is Fear the Answer?"
by Sylvia Engdahl at http://lifeboat.com/ex/fear.and.space
"AI and Sci-Fi: My, Oh, My!" by Robert J. Sawyer at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/ai.and.sci-fi
"Brave New World? A defense of paradise-engineering" by David Pearce at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/brave.new.world
"Immortalist Utilitarianism" by Michael Anissimov at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/immortalist.utilitarianism
"Neurotechnology and Society (2010-2060)" by Zack Lynch at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/neurotechnology.and.society
"Space: A Moral Vacuum?" by Jeff Krukin at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/space.a.moral.vacuum
"The Strategic Brain" by Natasha Vita-More at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/strategic.brain
"The Third Generation Web is Coming" by Nova Spivack at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/web.3.0
Recent Donors
Here are some of the recent donations/pledges we have received since
the last newsletter:
Robert Citron: $300,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $170,
Brenda Cooper: $120,
Edwin B. Cooper Jr.: $120,
Michael Anissimov: $100,
Anonymous: $95,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
John Claus: $25,
Adam Dobrin: $25,
James William Taylor: $25,
Otto Valtakoski: $50,
Sylvia Engdahl: $10,
Stephen Fleming: $10,
Fundación Juvinter: $10,
Jeremy Shepard: $10,
and Michael Vassar: $10.
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.
