Lifeboat Foundation

Featured Stories

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  Tyrone Steels II 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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  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.

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  Our ScientificFreedomShield program strives to protect scientists from obstacles that would prevent latter day Max Plancks from completing their research.

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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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  Read I, Nanobot by Alan H. Goldstein.
   
  Scientists are on the verge of breaking the carbon barrier — creating artificial life and changing forever what it means to be human. And we’re not ready.

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  We have quotes by the late Michael Crichton on our Quotes page.

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

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  Lifeboat Foundation launches 3 books! The Lifeboat Foundation has launched three books. They are: The Human Race to the Future: What Could Happen — and What to Do, Fourth Edition by Daniel Berleant, Visions of the Future, Second Edition edited by J. Daniel Batt (with 42+ authors!), and Prospects for Human Survival by Willard H. Wells.

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  Lijie “Grace” Zhang, coauthor of The Role of Tissue Engineering in Articular Cartilage Repair and Regeneration and Carbon Nanofibers and Carbon Nanotubes in Regenerative Medicine, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

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  Donate the unused CPU cycles on your computer(s) to help scientists determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By running the Rosetta program on your computer while you don’t need it you will help speed up and extend research in ways scientists couldn’t possibly attempt without your help. You will also be helping efforts at designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, malaria, cancer, coronavirus, and Alzheimer’s. Read news and articles about Rosetta.
   
  Considering the poor preparation by world governments for a lethal bioweapon attack, nongovernmental approaches like this may save millions of lives! As our Ray Kurzweil says, “There are tens of thousands who have the knowledge and tools today to create and release a destructive biological virus.”
   
  Join our [email protected] team and change the world!

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  Shannon Vyff, author of 21st Century Kids, joins our Education Board.

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  The Human Race to the Future: What Could Happen — and What to Do, the first book published by the Lifeboat Foundation, has been awarded the “Peer Reviewed & Approved for Science” seal of approval by the Washington Academy of Sciences.