Lifeboat News: The Blog – Safeguarding Humanity

Get the latest international news and world events from around the world.

Mar 3
2022

South Australia Sets a New Renewable Mark Reaching Zero Demand

It happened on a November Sunday and portends a future where this Australian state could be off-the-grid by as early as 2025.

Mar 3
2022

The Growing Threat of Ransomware

Guest contributor, Brian Wallace writes about the rising threat from cyber attackers who in 2021 have cost organizations over $20 billion.

Mar 3
2022

My Take on the Future Metaverse Internet as Envisioned

Rather than an open, ubiquitous Internet that is accessible to the entire planet, Facebook’s new vision is about immersive reality.

Mar 3
2022

The mRNA Vaccines Are a Good Start But a New Approach to Vaccines is Needed as More Variants Emerge

The S or Spike Protein is the way COVID-19 in all its variants invade healthy human cells. But new variants are changing the spike.

Mar 3
2022

Planet Awash in Waste Needs to Adopt a Circular Economy Approach to Our Trash

Today we can eliminate landfills by incinerating much of the garbage we produce using net-zero-emissions waste-to-energy technologies.

Mar 3
2022

“Cream Cheese” That Never Came from a Cow

Bold Cultr, from General Mills, produces an animal-free dairy product that like meatless meat is expected to disrupt the food industry.

Mar 3
2022

Why I Write About Hydrogen

Can hydrogen be a substitute for fossil fuels across the global economy? A report tabled at COP-26 provides a plan to make it so.

Mar 3
2022

The Rogue Planets I Read About in Science Fiction When I Was Younger Are Real

It turns out that free-floating planets are more common in our galaxy than previously thought.

Mar 3
2022

Capturing Carbon Continues to be Controversial

Five options include natural, permanent sequestration, capture and use, direct air capture, and ocean sequestration.

Mar 3
2022

Peter Diamandis Describes How Applying AI to Drug Discovery is Causing Positive Disruption to Biopharma

The content of Peter’s email blast has been edited by me (can’t help myself). But I believe I have captured its essence and hope you enjoy the retelling. As always your comments are welcomed.

What is Insilico Medicine?

Insilico Medicine is a pioneering drug company that is powered by a “drug discovery engine” that sifts through millions of data samples to determine the signature biological characteristics of specific diseases. It then identifies the most promising treatment targets and uses a new AI technique called generative adversarial networks (GANs) to create molecules perfectly suited against them.