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HQ Supervisor

The Lifeboat Foundation is looking to hire an HQ Supervisor. This individual will be trained by our president in Austin, Texas USA and will be in charge of everything from financial paperwork to keeping our HQ (headquarters) clean.
 
The two main qualities that are being looked for are: 1) follow through 2) and a strong interest in “Safeguarding Humanity”.


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Learn about our 3 books.


Our LifeShield Bunkers program now enables you to participate in a local LifeShield Bunker.


Read the Popular Science feature (that features the Lifeboat Foundation) After Earth: Why, Where, How, and When We Might Leave Our Home Planet.

Our David Brin's new novel Existence mentions our many programs. Watch the trailer for this book.

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Latest News

Nov 5, 2024

Tomer Ze’ev joins our blog team with the post Gene therapy Improves Eye Health and Reduces the Need for Anti-VEGF Injections in Age-Related Macular Degeneration.

Nov 4, 2024

Read The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System, by our Dante Lauretta.

Nov 4, 2024

Read Analysis by AI of Reports of UN Debate on Artificial intelligence: Eliciting a coherent meta-pattern of connectives of strategic relevance by our Anthony Judge.

Nov 4, 2024

Read issue #268 of Lifeboat News!

Nov 3, 2024

Read World Futures Day 2023 Global futures agenda by The Millennium Project by our Mara Di Berardo.

Oct 29, 2024

Bruce Burke joins our blog team with the post Google is Reportedly Developing a ‘Computer-Using Agent’ AI System.

Oct 29, 2024

Christin Glorioso, CEO and Cofounder of NeuroAge Therapeutics, joins our Life Extension Board.

Oct 22, 2024

Read Pathways in Governance between Logic, Emotion, Spirituality and Action AI-assisted clarification of contrasting modalities of persuasion by our Anthony Judge.

Oct 22, 2024

Chavis Srichan joins our blog team with the post Aging and longevity: Could a cheek swab test predict mortality risk?

Oct 21, 2024

Nicolò Vivori joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
Nicolò coauthored Basic Premises: Searching for new targets and strategies in diffuse gliomas.

Oct 20, 2024

Read Kish Cypher: The Story Of KLJN For Unconditional Security, authored by our Laszlo B. Kish.

Oct 20, 2024

Read After the Fall: Sri Lanka in Victory and War, authored by Mohan K. Tikku.

Oct 20, 2024

Read Matter Over Mind: Cosmos, Chaos, and Curiosity, authored by our Elaine Walker.

Oct 18, 2024

Ahmed Bouzid, CEO of Witlingo, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
 
Witlingo builds products and solutions that enable brands to engage with their clients and prospects using voice, audio, and conversational AI.

Oct 14, 2024

Junaid Mian, a Board Member of the EarthLight Foundation, joins our Space Settlement Board.
 
Junaid is an early investor in Axiom Space, who are developing the world’s first commercial space station, and has also invested in several notable New Space startups.

Oct 12, 2024

Read Bennu 3-D: Anatomy of an Asteroid, coauthored by our Dante Lauretta who is also Principal Investigator of the OSIRIS-REx mission.

Oct 11, 2024

Get the free iOS app Supraconscious You by our Maria Olon Tsaroucha.
 
Are you vision driven? Are you a dynamic soul? Are you an expert in your field or you want to become one? Still, your mind is stuck in some habitual patterns that you have not yet found a way to transform? This app is for you!

Oct 11, 2024

Read Transhuman Citizen: Zoltan Istvan’s Hunt for Immortality, about our Zoltan Istvan.

Oct 11, 2024

Read Intercountry Cultural Differences and Intercultural Nursing Approaches (in Turkish), coauthored by our David Evans.

Oct 11, 2024

Read Rapamycin: mTOR, Autophagy & Treating mTOR Syndrome by our Ross Pelton.

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Upcoming Events

Healthy Masters will be held November 2–3 in Braga, Portugal and in cyberspace.
 
Healthy Masters provides people around the world with the opportunity to learn from the most remarkable leaders in the fields of health and longevity.
 
Our Maria Entraigues Abramson, Bill Andrews, Ben Best, Evelyne Yehudit Bischof, David Brin, José Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Brian Delaney, Valerio Di Nicola, Paul Epping, Collin Ewald, Gregory M. Fahy, William Faloon, Steven Garan, Anastasiya Giarletta, Vera Gorbunova, Brigitte Hanly, Rudi Hoffman, Elsa Logarinho, Andrea B. Maier, Jeffery A. Martin, Nuno Martins, Josh Mitteldorf, Ines O’Donovan, Liz Parrish, Alexander Paziotopoulos, Steve Perry, Denisa Rensen, Torrey Smith, Paul Spiegel, Ilia Stambler, Natasha Vita-More, Pete Worden, and Alex Zhavoronkov will be speaking.

The Longevity Summit 2024 will be held December 3–4 in Novato, California and in cyberspace.
 
Our David Barzilai, Christin Glorioso, Lorna Harries, and Steve Horvath will be speaking.

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Featured Stories

  • We now have a quote by Jeff Bezos on our Quotes page. Jeff is founder of Amazon and will soon be the richest person on the planet. (This is an important quote. Read it!)

  • Our Space Habitats program works to build fail-safes against global existential risks by encouraging the spread of sustainable human civilization beyond Earth.

  • Diana J. Muir, founder of the Hawking Institute and of the Personal Learning Center, International, joins our Education Board. With more than 14 years in online learning, Diana is considered one of the pioneers in the field of online education.

  • Actor/director Edward James Olmos joins our Ethics Board and Media & Arts Board. Eddie has done everything from playing Admiral Adama on Battlestar Galactica to helping get communities cleaned up and rebuilt after the 1992 Rodney King Riots in Los Angeles.

  • Elaine Walker joins our Media & Arts Board and our Space Settlement Board. Watch Martians by ZIA.

  • Ebrima Ceesay of Booz Allen Hamilton, who consults on information security, forensics, data mining, and machine learning, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.

  • Read our SecurityPreserver program! Learn how we can have technologically-enabled “radical reciprocal accountability” and transparency protecting us from existential risks through information!

  • Jason Vaughn Clark, who created a monolithic comb drive nanomachine, joins our Engineering Board and Nanotechnology Board. This nanoscale motorized positioning device can be used in biological and engineering fields.

  • Andrzej Bartke, winner of the first Methuselah Mouse Prize, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.

  • Our Scientific Advisory Board completes a report that Richard Branson requests on anti-viral technologies for his aircraft.

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

  • Watch our high resolution Doomsday Curve Video!
     
    This video documents that the percentage of humanity it takes to kill all of humanity is decreasing over time and soon a small group of people, or even a single person, will be able to threaten the survival of humanity.

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

  • 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!

  • Rafaela Hillerbrand joins our Complex Systems Board and Ethics Board. She is a member of the Future of Humanity Institute staff and earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Erlangen-Nünberg and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at the University of Müster and the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur.

  • Become famous! Submit contributions to the Lifeboat Foundation endorsed Journals of Personal Cyberconsciousness and Geoethical Nanotechnology.

  • Aaron Balogun is one of our LinkedIn Managers. He is also Account Manager at Capitol Advantage and Director of Operations at Flanagan Consulting, LLC.