Lifeboat Foundation

Featured Stories

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  Jeannie Novak, founder of Indiespace — one of the first companies to promote and distribute interactive entertainment online, where she consults with creative professionals in the music, film, and television industries to help them migrate to the game industry, joins our Media & Arts Board.
   
  Jeannie was chosen as one of the 100 most influential people in high-technology by MicroTimes magazine — and she has been profiled by CNN, Billboard Magazine, Sundance Channel, Daily Variety, and the Los Angeles Times.

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

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  Watch some dancing robots (worth about $4 million in total) on our Videos page.

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  We would like your input on our InternetShield program. As the Internet grows in importance, an attack on it could cause physical as well as informational damage. An attack today on hospital systems or electric utilities could lead to deaths. In the future an attack could be used to alter the output that is produced by nanofactories worldwide leading to massive deaths.

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  Watch Nokia Morph Concept. Morph is a concept demonstrating some of the possibilities nanotechnologies might enable in future communication devices.
   
  Morph can sense its environment, is energy harvesting, and self cleaning. Morph is a flexible two-piece device that can adapt its shape to different use modes. Nanotechnology enables us to have adaptive materials yet rigid forms on demand.

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  Bindeshwar Pathak, the great humanist and social reformer of contemporary India, joins our Sustainability Board. After Gandhi, Dr. Pathak is the man, more than any other in India, who has championed sanitation and upliftment of the untouchables as the mission of his life. For the last three decades he has been working relentlessly to keep the ecosystem clean and bring the marginalized sections of society in the mainstream.

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  Our LifePreserver program is designed to bring you the latest information about aging research and the progress towards treating age-related diseases. This program also aims to bring you practical information about the steps you can take now to slow the aging process and delay the onset of age-related disease.

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  Philippe Van Nedervelde joins the Lifeboat 500, becoming one of a few special individuals and organizations to make a meaningful, but affordable commitment of the price of a cup of coffee a day, in order to help us grow!

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  Teachers in Space won our Dream Project contest. We then worked with them to fund classroom experiments that flew aboard the Perlan II stratospheric glider which just set the world altitude record.
   
  The experiments that we flew with the Perlan II are from the Ashford School in Connecticut (dual geiger counter radiation level testing), Cazenovia School in New York (effects of radiation on plant seeds), and Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (marshmallows at high altitude / low pressure). Learn more details of these and of experiments flown in previous years.

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  We now have quotes by Lord Martin Rees on our Quotes page. Martin was our Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award 2004 winner and is a member of our Scientific Advisory Board.

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  Read Jurisprudence of Artilects: Blueprint for a Synthetic Citizen by Frank W. Sudia, JD.

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  Our World News page has information about CIA Says Hackers Have Cut Power Grid: Several cities outside the U.S. have sustained attacks on utility systems and extortion demands.
   
  Read our InternetShield program for solutions!