Lifeboat Foundation

Featured Stories

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  Shannon Vyff, author of 21st Century Kids, joins our Education Board.

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  Meredith L. Patterson, who discovered a major security flaw in the Bitfrost security procedures for the OLPC, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board and Biotech/Medical Board. She was recently profiled by the AP for doing genetic engineering at home. Meredith enjoys knitting, sewing, and target shooting.

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  Donate the unused CPU cycles on your computer(s) to help scientists understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases. Current Folding@Home 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 Folding@Home team and change the world!

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  Read Minding the Planet: The Meaning and Future of the Semantic Web by Nova Spivack.

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  We now have a quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson on our Quotes page.

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  Donate the unused CPU cycles on your computer(s) to help scientists determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By running the Rosetta program on your computer while you don’t need it you will help speed up and extend research in ways scientists couldn’t possibly attempt without your help. You will also be helping efforts at designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, malaria, cancer, coronavirus, and Alzheimer’s. Read news and articles about Rosetta.
   
  Considering the poor preparation by world governments for a lethal bioweapon attack, nongovernmental approaches like this may save millions of lives! As our Ray Kurzweil says, “There are tens of thousands who have the knowledge and tools today to create and release a destructive biological virus.”
   
  Join our Rosetta@Home team and change the world!

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  Priya Natarajan, who discovered there are limits to how large a black hole can grow, joins our Cosmology Board.

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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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  Hanna Tuomisto, who coauthored Assessing the environmental impacts of contrasting farming systems, joins our Sustainability 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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  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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  Listen to I am the very model of a Singularitarian by our Charlie Kam.

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  Our LifePreserver program is designed to bring you the latest information about aging research and the progress towards treating age-related diseases. This program also aims to bring you practical information about the steps you can take now to slow the aging process and delay the onset of age-related disease.