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Latest News

Sep 24, 2017

Sky Marsen, author of Becoming More Than Human: Technology and the Post-Human Condition, joins our Futurists Board.

Sep 24, 2017

Dori Liszkai, Advisory Council Member – Blockchain at GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group), joins our New Money Systems Board.

Sep 23, 2017

Ashley Brooke Taylor, Cofounder at Future Culture, joins our New Money Systems Board. Future Culture is a nonprofit partnership honing a unique perspective on the integration of blockchain and community.

Sep 23, 2017

Rhonda Stevenson, President of Tau Zero Foundation, joins our Space Settlement Board.

Sep 23, 2017

Azam Shaghaghi, Strategy Analyst at BMO Financial Group, joins our New Money Systems Board.

Sep 22, 2017

Janet Faulkner, Program Manager at the University of Houston, joins our Futurists Board.

Sep 22, 2017

Marsia Bealby, Coeditor of Current Research in Egyptology 2012: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Symposium, joins our Futurists Board.

Sep 21, 2017

Pam Keefe, Co-Organizer of RAADfest Bangkok, joins our Life Extension Board.

Sep 18, 2017

Immaculate Dadiso Motsi-Omoijiade, author of Bitcoin Lending and the Multiplier Effect, joins our New Money Systems Board.

Sep 17, 2017

Patrick Tucker joins our blog team with the post Can the US Military Re-Invent the Microchip for the AI Era?

Sep 16, 2017

Watch NanoMind: AI-Powered Nano Design.

Sep 16, 2017

Watch Effective Altruism: How to Evaluate Hard-To-Measure Approaches.

Sep 16, 2017

Christiana Vasiadou, Compliance Officer and Head of Monitoring Unit at Depaho, joins our Finance Board.

Sep 15, 2017

Dana Klisanin, CEO of Evolutionary Guidance Media, joins our Futurists Board.

Sep 15, 2017

Anca Ioviță, author of The Aging Gap Between Species, joins our Life Extension Board.

Sep 14, 2017

Kristina Bliadze, Business Development Manager at CoinsBank, joins our New Money Systems Board.

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Upcoming Events

The BSAAM’s 14th Annual Anti Ageing Conference London 2017 will be held October 12–14 in London. Our Aubrey de Grey, Tara Hambley, Michael Klentze, Marios Kyriazis, Karl J. Neeser, Giovanni Scapagnini, Maria Somers, and Miguel Toribio-Mateas will be participating.

The 15th Reinventing Space Conference will be held October 24–26, 2017 at the Strathclyde University Technology & Innovation Centre in Glasgow, Scotland.
 
The focus of this conference will be on the novel applications that are becoming commercially viable as space technology improves. These include space tugs, space tourism, satellite refuelling, debris removal, debris exploitation, manufacturing in orbit, real-time video from space, and space mining.
 
Our Stuart Eves, David S. Germroth, Scott Hatton, Dirk Lehmann, Edmondo Minisci, Mark Post, Massimiliano Vasile, and Christopher Welch will be speaking.
 
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Featured Stories

  • 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.

  • Buzz Aldrin joins our Space Settlement Board.
     
    On July 20, 1969, Buzz and Neil Armstrong made their historic Apollo 11 moonwalk, becoming the first two humans to set foot on another world. An estimated 600 million people — at that time, the world's largest television audience in history — witnessed this unprecedented heroic endeavor.

  • Astrophysicist, author, and recording artist Fiorella Terenzi, described by Time Magazine as “a cross between Carl Sagan and Madonna”, joins our Media & Arts Board and Space Settlement Board.
     
    Fiorella has performed and recorded with artists from Herbie Hancock to Ornette Coleman and earned her doctorate in physics from the University of Milan.

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

  • Read the AsteroidShield program completed by our Scientific Advisory Board. Learn about the dangers caused by asteroids and proposed solutions to this problem.

  • Nanotechnology Now, the world’s most in-depth online resource for nanotechnology, supports Lifeboat Foundation with a free banner ad!

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

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

  • Steven J. Rose, who has discovered a method to turn light into matter, joins our Physics Board.

  • We now have quotes by Ray Kurzweil on our Quotes page. Ray Kurzweil has donated more than $10,000 to the Lifeboat Foundation.

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

  • Scott Borg, Director and Chief Economist of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, a Department of Homeland Security advisory group, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.