Lifeboat Foundation

Featured Stories

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  Jill Tarter joins our Astrobiology/SETI Board. Jill is known for her work on the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI). She holds the Emeritus and Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI at the SETI Institute and is the former director of the Center for SETI Research and has been with SETI since 1984.
   
  Jill’s astronomical work is illustrated in Carl Sagan’s novel Contact. In the film version of Contact, the protagonist Ellie Arroway is played by Jodie Foster. Jill conversed with the actress for months before and during filming, and Arroway was largely based on her work.

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  Watch a Japanese simulation of what a large meteorite collision would look like.
  

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  Watch Productive Nanosystems: From molecules to superproducts on our Videos page.

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  Watch Blue Beauty: Our Beautiful Earth.

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  Help us design Ark I — our fallback position in case programs such as our BioShield and NanoShield fail.

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  Our LifeShield Bunkers program is a compliment to our Space Habitats program. It is a fallback position in case programs such as our BioShield and NanoShield fail globally or locally.

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  Alper Bozkurt, who is developing cyborg cockroaches to be used as emergency responders, joins our Engineering Board.

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  Sarah Tabrizi, who discovered new targets for treating Huntington’s disease, joins our Neuroscience Board.

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  Read Minding the Planet: The Meaning and Future of the Semantic Web by Nova Spivack.

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  GREAT NEWS! We have raised our grant limit from $10,000 to $25,000.

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  We now have a quote by Garry Kasparov on our Quotes page.

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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 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, The Last Theorem, coauthored with our Frederik Pohl, was just released!

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  We have College classroom tested coursework available which was developed by Gary Scott Danford, Ph.D., University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

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  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.

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  Read Human Body Version 2.0 by Ray Kurzweil.

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  Watch a magnificent space compilation on our Videos page.

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  The Lifeboat Foundation and its donors sponsored our board member Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka into Zero G.
   
  After experiencing Zero G, Wole said: “Hitchless flight. Thank you again for the remarkable experience which I’m still digesting.”
   
  Watch Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Winner Stephen Hawking also enjoy Zero G!