Lifeboat Foundation

Featured Stories

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  Having problems with suicide bombers, cyber hackers, and/or car bombs? Lifeboat Foundation has the solution! The Borg have joined our Counterterrorism Board! (This is worth a media mention!)

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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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  Alexander “Sasha” Kashlinsky, who has discovered “dark flow” which is causing hundreds of clusters of galaxies to stream en masse towards a region at the edge of the visible universe, joins our Cosmology Board. Sasha is Senior Staff Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

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  National Geographic “Explorer-in-residence” Louise Leakey joins our Sustainability Board.

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

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  Our Roger Brent has authored the special report With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Time for the Synthetic Biology Community to Acknowledge Three Responsibilities.

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

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  Our Scientific Advisory Board completes our NanoShield program which provides solutions to ecophages and nonreplicating nanoweapons.

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  We have launched a LinkedIn group for our Advisory Board members. The goal of this group is to help members:

  • Reach other members of the Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Boards.
  • Accelerate careers/business through referrals from Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Boards LinkedIn group members.
  • Know more than a name — view rich professional profiles from fellow Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Boards members.

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  Donate the unused CPU cycles on your computer(s) to help scientists understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases. Current [email protected] projects include the search for cures of: Alzheimer’s Disease, Cancer, Coronavirus, Huntington’s Disease, Osteogenesis Imperfecta, and Parkinson’s Disease. Your participation can help lead to a cure for these diseases, so donate computing cycles generously!
   
  Join our [email protected] team and change the world!

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

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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!