Lifeboat Foundation

Featured Stories

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  Read Jurisprudence of Artilects: Blueprint for a Synthetic Citizen by Frank W. Sudia, JD.

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  The Lifeboat Foundation now has a new official song! (You may also be cheered up by this song.)

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  Sonia Arrison, an author and policy analyst who has studied the impact of new technologies on society for the better part of a decade, joins our Futurists Board. A frequent media contributor and guest, her work has appeared in many publications including CBS MarketWatch, CNN, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today.

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  Catherine Asaro, author of the Nebula Award winning novel The Quantum Rose, joins our Physics Board. Catherine earned her PhD in Physics from Harvard and recently completed two terms as president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (SFWA).

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  Our Roger Brent has authored the special report With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Time for the Synthetic Biology Community to Acknowledge Three Responsibilities.

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  Watch Blue Beauty: Our Beautiful Earth.

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  Watch a Japanese simulation of what a large meteorite collision would look like.
  

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  Jason Vaughn Clark, who created a monolithic comb drive nanomachine, joins our Engineering Board and Nanotechnology Board. This nanoscale motorized positioning device can be used in biological and engineering fields.

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  Anind K. Dey, coauthor of Managing Personal Information Disclosure in Ubiquitous Computing Environments, Designer Support for Context Monitoring and Control, and SiteView: Tangibly Programming Active Environments with Predictive Visualization, joins our Information Sciences Board.

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

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  Tyrone Steels II joins the Lifeboat 500, becoming one of a few special individuals and organizations to make a meaningful, but affordable commitment of the price of a cup of coffee a day, in order to help us grow!

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  Yi-Fen Lee, who discovered that Vitamin D protects cells from stress that can lead to cancer, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

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  Elaine Walker joins our Media & Arts Board and our Space Settlement Board. Watch Martians by ZIA.

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  We have launched a LinkedIn group for our Advisory Board members. The goal of this group is to help members:

  • Reach other members of the Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Boards.
  • Accelerate careers/business through referrals from Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Boards LinkedIn group members.
  • Know more than a name — view rich professional profiles from fellow Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Boards members.

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  Jaan Tallinn, cofounder of Skype, the only major IM client that both securely authenticates conversation participants and encrypts the communication, donates over $10,000 to Lifeboat Foundation.

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  Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Estonia and Georgia.

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  Help us design Ark I — our fallback position in case programs such as our BioShield and NanoShield fail.

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  We have quotes by the late Michael Crichton on our Quotes page.