Lifeboat Foundation

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  Listen to I am the very model of a Singularitarian by our Charlie Kam.

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  We now have a quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson on our Quotes page.

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

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

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  Watch our new Lifeboat Foundation Introduction Video!

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

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  Dante S. Lauretta joins our Space Settlement Board.
   
  Dante is Principal Investigator of OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer), a NASA asteroid study and sample return mission.

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  Jaan Tallinn, cofounder of Skype, the only major IM client that both securely authenticates conversation participants and encrypts the communication, donates over $10,000 to Lifeboat Foundation.

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  The research paper Human Brain/Cloud Interface has been published by our Amara D. Angelica, Frank J. Boehm, Krishnan Chakravarthy, Robert A. Freitas Jr., Steven A. Garan, Tad Hogg, Mikhail A. Lebedev, Nuno R. B. Martins, Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld, Yuriy Svidinenko, and Melanie Swan.

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  We now have quotes by Stephen Hawking on our Quotes page. Stephen was our Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award 2008 winner.

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

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  Alan Stern joins our Space Settlement Board. Alan is principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto among his various accomplishments which include being named to Time 100's list of most influential people.

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

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  Ed Begley Jr., actor, environmentalist, and founder of Begley’s Best, joins our Sustainability Board.

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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!

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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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  Watch robot quadrotors perform the James Bond theme on our Videos page.

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  The Lifeboat Foundation presented the Lifeboat to the Stars award to Kevin J. Anderson and Steven Savile for their collaborative book Tau Ceti. The authors split the $1,000 prize, and each received a handsome trophy in an hourglass design.
   
  This award honors the best work of science fiction of any length contributing to an understanding of the benefits, means, and difficulties of interstellar travel.
   
  Coordinating judge was Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell Award-winning science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer, and the other judges were Catherine Asaro, Jason Batt, Sherry E. Bell, Kevin M. Berry, Brenda Cooper, Niklas Järvstråt, Jim Karkanias, Rouslan Krechetnikov, Eva-Jane Lark, Mike E. McCulloch, George Perry, John K. Strickland Jr., and Allen G. Taylor.