Lifeboat Foundation

Pat Maechler is President at Starship Factory, Talentbetreuung at ICT Scouts & Campus, and Secretary for UN Affairs at Pirate Parties International.

43 posts by Pat Maechler

• Pizza, Philosophy and Science: Longtermism – January 18, 2021
• Blood iron levels could be key to slowing ageing, gene study shows – November 26, 2020
• Particle Physicists Continue Empty Promises – November 19, 2020
• Free Webinar on AI – November 16, 2020
• Scientists induce “suspended animation” state in mice and rats – November 5, 2020
• David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet | Official Trailer | Netflix – October 27, 2020
• Cybathlon: The Cybathlon is a multi-sport event – September 15, 2020
• The Relationship between Political Ideology and the Pursuit of Staying Forever Young – September 10, 2020
• A Supercomputer Analyzed Covid-19 — and an Interesting New Theory Has Emerged – September 2, 2020
• Take action and join me in the fight against respiratory infections! Relative humidity of 40–60% in buildings will reduce respiratory infections and save lives – August 6, 2020
• What Is Intelligence? Where Does it Begin? – July 12, 2020
• MMR Vaccine Appears to Confer Strong Protection from COVID-19: Few Deaths from SARS-CoV-2 in Highly Vaccinated Populations – July 3, 2020
• Could Solar Storms Destroy Civilization? Solar Flares & Coronal Mass Ejections – June 13, 2020
• Since my Harvard lab closed yesterday, I’ve been reading and interpreting this week’s published papers on #COVID19 – March 16, 2020
• How does Coronavirus compare to Ebola, SARS, etc? – March 4, 2020
• The Coronavirus Is a Threat to the Global Drug Supply – February 18, 2020
• This is the highest-resolution photo of the sun ever taken – January 29, 2020
• How to Slow Aging (and even reverse it) – December 18, 2019
• Peak phosphorus – November 19, 2019
• What if We Nuke a City? – November 5, 2019
• Periodic table: new version warns of elements that are endangered – October 11, 2019
• Existential Risk Public Group – June 6, 2019
• Does the news reflect what we die from? – June 1, 2019
• Send Your Name to Mars: InSight – May 24, 2019
• Hey, let’s fight global pandemics by maybe starting one… Say WHAT? – May 24, 2019
• Jeff Bezos wants to save Earth by moving industry to space – May 13, 2019
• Obliteration as a Service – April 9, 2019
• Scientists in Switzerland create the world’s first fully computer-generated genome of a living organism – April 9, 2019
• Media Advisory: Press Conference on First Result from the Event Horizon Telescope – April 9, 2019
• Meat And Agriculture Are Worse For The Climate Than Power Generation, Steven Chu Says – April 5, 2019
• Protein-slaying drugs could be the next blockbuster therapies – March 20, 2019
• Science has a problem. Here is how you can help – March 20, 2019
• The implausibility of intelligence explosion – March 19, 2019
• When Science Journalism Becomes Dangerous – March 12, 2019
• Specific nutritional infections early in life as risk factors for human colon and breast cancers several decades later – March 4, 2019
• Building a Marsbase is a Horrible Idea: Let’s do it! – February 3, 2019
• How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code – January 3, 2019
• Association of Assisted Reproductive Technologies With Arterial Hypertension During Adolescence – December 14, 2018
• Tell the FDA to identify and punish law breakers – November 15, 2018
• How can we do the most good for the world? – September 12, 2018
• The world’s first lab grown meat restaurant – September 2, 2018
• BBC Documentary — Mars A Traveller’s Guide | BBC Documentary 2017 – August 26, 2018
• Why Alien Life Would be our Doom — The Great Filter – August 19, 2018