Lifeboat Foundation

Featured Stories

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  Andrzej Bartke, winner of the first Methuselah Mouse Prize, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.

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  The Lifeboat Foundation presented the Lifeboat to the Stars award to Kevin J. Anderson and Steven Savile for their collaborative book Tau Ceti. The authors split the $1,000 prize, and each received a handsome trophy in an hourglass design.
   
  This award honors the best work of science fiction of any length contributing to an understanding of the benefits, means, and difficulties of interstellar travel.
   
  Coordinating judge was Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell Award-winning science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer, and the other judges were Catherine Asaro, Jason Batt, Sherry E. Bell, Kevin M. Berry, Brenda Cooper, Niklas Järvstråt, Jim Karkanias, Rouslan Krechetnikov, Eva-Jane Lark, Mike E. McCulloch, George Perry, John K. Strickland Jr., and Allen G. Taylor.

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  Aaron Balogun is one of our LinkedIn Managers. He is also Account Manager at Capitol Advantage and Director of Operations at Flanagan Consulting, LLC.

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

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  Watch our high resolution Doomsday Curve Video!
   
  This video documents that the percentage of humanity it takes to kill all of humanity is decreasing over time and soon a small group of people, or even a single person, will be able to threaten the survival of humanity.

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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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  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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  We have College classroom tested coursework available which was developed by Gary Scott Danford, Ph.D., University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

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  Bindeshwar Pathak, the great humanist and social reformer of contemporary India, joins our Sustainability Board. After Gandhi, Dr. Pathak is the man, more than any other in India, who has championed sanitation and upliftment of the untouchables as the mission of his life. For the last three decades he has been working relentlessly to keep the ecosystem clean and bring the marginalized sections of society in the mainstream.

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  Yousin Suh, coauthor of Genetics of Longevity and Aging, joins our Life Extension Board.
   
  Yousin's laboratory uses novel technology to investigate the genetic components of aging and aging-related disease using functional genomics approaches, focusing on the identification of gene sequence variation (i.e. single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)), in candidate genes and the assessment of their potential functional impact on aging-related phenotypes.

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  Sarah Tabrizi, who discovered new targets for treating Huntington’s disease, joins our Neuroscience Board.

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  Ray Kurzweil says “Currently at least 99 percent, if not 99.9 percent, of the computational capacity of all the computers on the Internet lies unused.” We say “Join [email protected] to use spare clock cycles on your computer to help discover new drugs that fight AIDS! Join our team!”