One Million Dollar Donation By Guardian Award Winner Jeff Bezos
Lifeboat Foundation Dream Project Winner Teachers in Space, the leading
provider of affordable flight experiment opportunities for classrooms,
was awarded one million dollars by Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award
winner Jeff Bezos.
Last month, Blue Origin auctioned off a seat on the first crewed flight
of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle, which is scheduled to lift off
from West Texas on July 20. Guardian Award winner Jeff Bezos himself
will be on the flight, and the seat sold for an astronomical price —
$28 million.
That money went to Blue Origin’s nonprofit organization Club for the
Future, which disbursed a large chunk of it, including $1 million for
Teachers in Space, led by our Liz Kennick.
Previously, Lifeboat Foundation provided funds to Teachers in Space to
fly three new classroom experiments on the Perlan II stratospheric
glider in Minden, Nevada. These experiments were a big success.
Learn more at
https://lifeboat.com/ex/press.releases....in.space
Goodnight Moon Base Update
Lifeboat Foundation provided seed funding and publicity for Goodnight
Moon Base which is now fully funded. This book embraces children’s love
of human space exploration, transporting them onto a moon base for
bedtime each night. By immersing them in this captivating world through
vivid illustrations and enchanting rhymes, a future with this moon base
will be so compelling and attractive that it will have to manifest
itself into physical reality.
Learn more at
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/20...oon-base
Healthy Masters 2021
Healthy Masters 2021 will be held November 6–7, 2021 at the Palacio
Estoril Hotel in Portugal. Low cost online tickets are also available.
Our Maria Entraigues Abramson, Yael Benvenisti, Nichola Conlon, José
Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Brian Delaney, Valerio Di Nicola, William
Faloon, Robin Farmanfarmaian, Steven A. Garan, Giorgio Gaviraghi, Andrés
Grases, Rudi Hoffman, Naveen Jain, David Kekich, Emil Kendziorra, Stuart
Maudsley, Liz Parrish, Denisa Rensen, Paul A. Spiegel, Rohit Talwar,
Natasha Vita-More, and Simon Peter “Pete” Worden will be speaking.
Learn more at https://healthymasters.net
J. Peter Rosenfeld Memorial
J. Peter Rosenfeld provided a news item for our December 2020 newsletter
only two months before he died of old age in February 2021. We applaud
him for working to “Safeguard Humanity” until the very end! Peter was
with us for 11 years and is now on our esteemed Advisory Memorial Board.
Learn more at https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.j.peter.rosenfeld
Blog
Rebecca D. Costa joins our blog team with the post “Stimers Issues
Warning Regarding China and Russia Advances in Outer Space” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/stime...er-space
Peter DeKraker joins our blog team with the post “Unfolding the
hippocampus” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/unfol...pocampus
Henrique Jorge joins our blog team with the post “Innovation is a risk!”
at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/08/innov...s-a-risk
Recent interesting blog posts include:
“47 years later, Stephen Hawking’s most important idea was just proven
correct” by Atanas Atanasov at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/47-ye...-correct
“500% Lifespan Increase Achieved in Nematode Worms” by Joe Bennett at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/500-l...de-worms
“A noninvasive test to detect cancer cells and pinpoint their location”
by Omuterema Akhahenda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/a-non...location
“A supercomputer is helping to reduce traffic jams, saving time and
money. Here’s how” by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/a-sup...eres-how
“Ageing: Looming crisis or booming opportunity?” by Derick Lee at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/03/agein...ortunity
“Aging isn’t nice — Let’s bring world leaders to the quest of solving
it” by Andrés Grases at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/aging...lving-it
“Anti-aging protein in red blood cells helps stave off cognitive
decline” by Kevin Huang at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/anti-...-decline
“Blue Origin will start selling seats on its New Shepard spacecraft next
week” by Montie Adkins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/blue-...ext-week
“BrainGate: First Human Use of High-Bandwidth Wireless Brain-Computer
Interface” by Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/brain...nterface
“Chinese scientists may have key to delaying ageing” by Kaiser Matin at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/01/chine...g-ageing
“Delaying Aging Would Bring Trillions of Dollars in Economic Gains,
Study Finds” by Faith Jones at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/delay...dy-finds
“Elon Musk reveals he has Asperger’s syndrome” by Nicholi Avery at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/elon-...#45;2021
“Ergothioneine: A ‘Longevity Vitamin’ With Potential Benefits For
Age-Related Outcomes?” by Mike Lustgarten at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/ergot...outcomes
“Evidence emerges of ‘brand new’ particle at CERN” by Steve Nichols at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/evide...-at-cern
“Extinct giant bird claw with the flesh still on it resurfaces online”
by Heather Blevins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/extin...s-online
“Humans could live to 150, according to study” by Future Timeline at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/human...to-study
“I’m 11, I have a physics degree and want to make humans immortal” by
Derick Lee at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/im-11...immortal
“Insulin Sensitivity Is A Hallmark Of Longevity” by Mike Lustgarten at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/insul...ongevity
“Intermittent Fasting for Longevity: The Science Behind the Hype” by
Rachel Burger at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/inter...the-hype
“Is Mycelium Fungus the Plastic of the Future?” by Raphael Ramos at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/is-my...e-future
“It’s official: China has eliminated malaria” by Shane Hinshaw at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/its-o...-malaria
“Japan sets new Internet speed record: 319 Tbit/s” by Future Timeline at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/japan...9-tbit-s
“The Japanese Government Is Strongly Encouraging Four-Day Work Weeks” by
Shane Hinshaw at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/the-j...rk-weeks
“Kenyan entrepreneur turns plastic waste into bricks, stronger than
concrete” by Omuterema Akhahenda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/kenya...concrete
“The Key to Reversing Aging: Folded Mitochondria?” by Montie Adkins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/the-k...chondria
“Nanobots could navigate through blood vessels to target cancers and
clear blood clots” by Dan Kummer at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/nanob...od-clots
“Nanofiber membrane makes seawater drinkable in minutes” by TJ Wass at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/nanof...-minutes
“NASA inches closer to printing artificial organs in space” by Dan Lovy
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/nasa-...in-space
“NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover snaps scenic selfie at ‘Mont Mercou’
(photo)” by Alberto Lao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/nasas...ou-photo
“NASA Saved SpaceX With $1.5 Billion Contract. ‘It’s True,’ Says Elon
Musk” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/08/nasa-...lon-musk
“Nets turn fog into water” by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/nets-...to-water
“New agricultural robots kill individual weeds with electricity” by
Jamal Simpson at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/new-a...ctricity
“New tech cheaply produces lithium and H2, while desalinating seawater”
by Steve Jordan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/new-t...seawater
“Origin of Deep-Space Radio Flash Discovered, and It’s Unlike Anything
Astronomers Have Ever Seen” by Paul Velho at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/01/origi...ver-seen
“Physicists solved a longstanding mystery of the aurora borealis” by
Atanas Atanasov at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/physi...borealis
“Quantum Computing just got desktop sized” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez
Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/quant...op-sized
“Scientist Invents Toilet That Turns Poop Into Green Energy” by Shane
Hinshaw at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/scien...n-energy
“Scientists discover how stem cells trigger muscle regeneration” by Hiel
Salming Gagarin at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/scien...neration
“Scientists Just Made A Quantum Computing Breakthrough!!” by Raphael
Ramos at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/scien...kthrough
“Spacecraft in a ‘warp bubble’ could travel faster than light, claims
physicist” by Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/03/space...hysicist
“World’s first 3D-printed steel bridge debuts in Amsterdam’s Red Light
District” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/world...district
“Young Blood Plasma Reduces the Epigenetic Age of Rats” by Joe Bennett
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/young...-of-rats
Growing Membership
We now have over 4,600 donors!
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