Lifeboat Foundation

Featured Stories

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  We now have quotes by Lord Martin Rees on our Quotes page. Martin was our Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award 2004 winner and is a member of our Scientific Advisory Board.

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

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

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  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!)

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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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  IBM, Microsoft, and Sun employees — learn how you can get your membership fees and donations to Lifeboat Foundation matched by your employer! (This includes retired IBM employees as well!)

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  Watch some dancing robots (worth about $4 million in total) on our Videos page.

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  We have launched a triple partnership that includes the Lifeboat Foundation, Nanotech-Now, and The American Journal of Bioethics.
   
  The column editor for this partnership is Summer Johnson, executive editor of The American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB).

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  Henry Markram, director of IBM’s Blue Brain Project, joins our Neuroscience Board. The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to reverse engineer the human brain onto a massive supercomputer.

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  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.

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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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  Do you have free or inexpensive space available for an entertaining Lifeboat Foundation volunteer? If so, send a message to [email protected] with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation Space”.

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  Read 10 Futuristic Materials by Michael Anissimov.

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  Alper Bozkurt, who is developing cyborg cockroaches to be used as emergency responders, joins our Engineering Board.