Lifeboat Foundation

Featured Stories

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  Scott Borg, Director and Chief Economist of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, a Department of Homeland Security advisory group, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.

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  Amy Li joins our Media & Arts Board. Amy is a multidisciplinary creative director and designer, specializing in branding, creative marketing strategy, and user experience design for global brands such as Yahoo, AT&T, VW, Sony etc. She is also on the board of directors of Humanity+.

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

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

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  Read The Ultimate Right to Life Debate: Synthetic biologists know the meaning of life, but do they know the meaning of synthetic biology? by Alan H. Goldstein.

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  Watch Productive Nanosystems: From molecules to superproducts on our Videos page.

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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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  Read 10 Futuristic Materials by Michael Anissimov.

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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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  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!”

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  Ebrima Ceesay of Booz Allen Hamilton, who consults on information security, forensics, data mining, and machine learning, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.

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  Maria Entraigues joins our Media & Arts Board. Maria’s written songs and performed as a soloist singer for several feature films including Rush Hour 2 (with Jackie Chan), After the Sunset (with Pierce Brosnan), The Magnificent Ambersons (with Madeleine Stowe), Picking up the Pieces (with Woody Allen), Diamond Hunters (with Alyssa Milano), and A Walk in the Clouds (with Keanu Reeves).

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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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  Read Singularities and Nightmares by David Brin.

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  Courtney Boyd Myers, who put together a massive report for Forbes on the state of artificial intelligence, joins our Futurists Board.