Lifeboat News #279

• Lifestyle Medicine: Hippocratic Tradition & Modern Applications
• Longevity Nation 2025 Update
• Longevity Summit 2025
• New Worlds Update
• Soul & the Machine
• Space Settlement Summit 2025
• Books
• Papers
• Blog
• Growing Membership

Lifestyle Medicine: Hippocratic Tradition & Modern Applications

Lifestyle Medicine: Hippocratic Tradition & Modern Applications will be held October 29–Nov 3 in Psalidi, KOS, Greece.
 
Our Domenico Praticó will be speaking.
 
Learn more at https://mediterraneanhealth.org

Longevity Nation 2025 Update

Longevity Nation 2025 will be held October 28–29 at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
 
Our Omri Amirav-Drory, Gil Atzmon, Daniel Z. Bar, Nir Barzilai, Yael Benvenisti, Evelyne Yehudit Bischof, Vittorio Calabrese, Haim Cohen, José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Vadim Fraifeld, Ohad Gafni, Myriam (Elfersi) Grunewald, Itamar Harel, Steve Horvath, Dmitry Kaminskiy, Marios Kyriazis, Fiona Miller, Georgios Mitrou, Björn Schumacher, Ilia Stambler, Tzipi Strauss, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking.
 
Learn more at https://longevitynation.org

Longevity Summit 2025

The Longevity Summit 2025 will be held December 9–10 at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, California.
 
Our David Barzilai, Gil Blander, Anastasiya K. Giarletta, Christin Glorioso, Dylan V. Livingston, Salah Mahmoudi, and Robin Mansukhani will be speaking.
 
Learn more at https://longevitygl.org/longevity-summit

New Worlds Update

New Worlds will be held October 23–25 in Austin, Texas. Join over 300 Space Leaders, Engineers, Entrepreneurs, and Astronauts in Austin for three days of breakthrough ideas, real-world space technology, and the future of human expansion beyond Earth.
 
Our Sheryl Barbosa, Howard Bloom, Ubaldo (UB) Ciminieri, Ben Haldeman, Christopher S. Jannette, Phil T. Metzger, Junaid Mian, Angelica Sirotin, Mike Simmons, Rick N. Tumlinson, Richard Ward, Frank White, and Robert Zubrin will be speaking.
 
Our Buzz Aldrin and Pete Worden were past “Space Cowboy” Award Winners of this conference.
 
Learn more at https://longevitynation.org

Soul & the Machine

The webinar Soul & The Machine: Depth Psychology, Myth, & Artificial Intelligence will be held November 8th in cyberspace and is being cohosted by our Jason D. Batt.
 
Learn more at https://www.ismythology.com/event-detai...lligence

Space Settlement Summit 2025

Space Settlement Summit 2025 will be held November 3–4 at the University of Central Florida.
 
Our Zaheer Ali, Isaac Arthur, Janet Ivey-Duensing, Phil T. Metzger, Rod Pyle, and Elaine Walker will be speaking.
 
Learn more at https://spacesettlementsummit.nss.org

Books

Read “Acting with the World: Agency in the Anthropocene” by our Andrew Pickering at https://amzn.to/3JyeSW3
 
Read “The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility” by our Robert Zubrin at https://amzn.to/3Lelrhe
 
Our Erik Persson coauthored the first chapter in “The Ethics Gap in the Engineering of the Future: Moral Challenges for the Technology of Tomorrow” at https://amzn.to/47zoAiY
 
Read “Exploring Social-Technical Futures of Work: A Narrative-Based Foresight Approach: Report of the Millennium Project Session at the Futures of Technologies Conference 2025”, coauthored by our Mara Di Berardo at https://www.utupub.fi/handle/10024/194175
 
Read “From Biohacking to Lifespanning” by our Jean Fallacara at https://lifespanning.com/products/from-...allacara
 
Read “Irrational Together: The Social Forces That Invisibly Shape Our Economic Behavior” by our Adam Hayes at https://amzn.to/3L9Odj7
 
Read “LIT: Life Ignition Tools: Use Nature’s Playbook to Energize Your Brain, Spark Ideas, and Ignite Action” by our Jeff Karp at https://amzn.to/48Wvu4k
 
Read “The Magnetic Declination: A History of the Compass (SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences)” by our Mioara Mandea at https://amzn.to/4oPe91W
 
Read “Outraged: Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground” by our Kurt Gray at https://amzn.to/4hBQI9X
 
Let’s stop fighting and align ourselves to the goal of saving humanity!
 
Read “The Quizzer’s Guide to the Cosmos: 500 Questions About the Universe (with Answers)” by our Stephen Webb at https://amzn.to/3Wt16qR

Papers

Read “Dual role of microglia in neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases”, coauthored by our Domenico Praticó at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41052547/
 
Read “Facing Our Waste With Grace Is Our Salvation: Accept the reality of our situation, embrace the infinite game, become beloved gardeners of Eden made real” by our John Hanacek at https://earthstar111.substack.com/p/fac...e-is-our
 
Read “Read It is Time for the Two-Swarm Movement” by our Ahmed Bouzid at https://lifeboat.com/pdfs/it.is.time.fo...ment.pdf

Blog

Karina Lunai joins our blog team with the post “Microtubule-Stabilizer Epothilone B Delays Anesthetic-Induced Unconsciousness in Rats” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/micro...-in-rats
 
Recent interesting blog posts include:
 
“400 Scientists Speak Out Against Chat Control” by Karina Lunai at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/400-s...-control
 
“[4K] Watch the largest and most powerful rocket launch live! Starship Flight 10” by Claudio Soprano at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/4k-wa...light-10
 
“The AI revolution: facilitator or terminator?” by Steve Nichols at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/the-a...rminator
 
“Attempting To Slow Aging By Optimizing Biomarkers” by Mike Lustgarten at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/attem...omarkers
 
“Beyond the Fifth Wall. The art of Acting, Avatars, and the Quantum Self” by Maria Olon Tsaroucha at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/beyon...tum-self
 
“Big Think” by Dirk Schulze-Makuch at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/big-think
 
“Breakthrough: This Japanese drug COULD fight aging at the cellular level” by Brent Ellman at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/break...ar-level
 
“Cross-laminated timber” by Logan Thrasher Collins at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/cross...d-timber
 
“Cybersecurity, AI, Quantum, and Tech Transformation” by Chuck Brooks at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/09/cyber...ormation
 
“Digital Tools Turn Construction Waste Into Resource” by Laurence Tognetti at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/digit...resource
 
“Dr. Reynold Panettieri, MD — Novel Therapeutic Approaches To Treat Airways Diseases” by Ira S. Pastor at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/dr-re...diseases
 
“Ectopic expression of a mechanosensitive channel confers spatiotemporal resolution to ultrasound stimulations of neurons for visual restoration” by Logan Thrasher Collins at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/ectop...toration
 
“Embryos small but mighty, first live videos show” by Arthur Brown at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/embry...eos-show
 
“From Idea to Empire: Integronn AI Revolutionizes Entrepreneurship” by Bruce Burke at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/from-...neurship
 
“From Rocks to Robots” by Bruce Burke at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/from-...o-robots
 
“The Growing Impact Of AI And Quantum On Cybersecurity” by Chuck Brooks at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/the-g...security
 
“How Dr. Bill Andrews Plans to Cure Aging in 3 Years” by Montie Adkins at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/how-d...-3-years
 
“How To Track And Optimize Biomarkers: Blood Test #6 in 2025” by Mike Lustgarten at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/how-t...-in-2025
 
“Inside My First Longevity Pop-Up City: Physical Community for Life Extension” by J.P. Medved at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/insid...xtension
 
“Is Altos Labs gearing up for clinical trials?” by Montie Adkins at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/is-al...l-trials
 
“Lifeboat Foundation Reports” by Mike Diverde at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/lifeb...-reports
 
“Merging with Machines: Lessons from The Intelligence Supernova on Our Posthuman Destiny” by Alex Vikoulov at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/mergi...-destiny
 
“Minimally invasive implantation of scalable high-density cortical microelectrode arrays for multimodal neural decoding and stimulation” by Dan Breeden at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/minim...mulation
 
“New Brain Device Is First to Read Out Inner Speech” by Steve Nichols at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/new-b...r-speech
 
“New transmitter could make wireless devices more energy-efficient” by Chima Wisdom at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/new-t...fficient
 
“The plant virus that trains your immune system to kill cancer” by Brent Ellman at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/the-p...l-cancer
 
“Reproducing Rejuvenation: Inside the Pig Plasma Longevity Experiments” by Nicolas Chernavsky at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/repro...eriments
 
“Rising Cognitive Disability as a Public Health Concern Among US Adults” by Nicholi Avery at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/09/risin...s-adults
 
“RoboBall: Ball-like robot could easily map steep moon craters” by Liliana Alfair at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/robob...-craters
 
“Roundup of Interesting Research Papers #6” by Logan Thrasher Collins at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/round...papers-6
 
“Scientists Design Huge Spacecraft That Could Carry 2,400 Colonists to Alpha Centauri” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/scien...centauri
 
“Scientists Just Reversed 15 Signs of Aging with Sound” by Better Than Yesterday: Biohacking & Healthy Aging at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/09/scien...th-sound
 
“Scientists say it may be possible to protect aging brains from Alzheimer’s with an old remedy — lithium” by Stan Daymond at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/scien...-lithium
 
“Shall we Dance in Free-Space? a Choice of Freedom!” by Adriano Autino at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/shall...-freedom
 
“Space Renaissance Academy Webinar Series” by Adriano Autino at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/09/space...r-series
 
“Sunlight split in two: Organic layer promises leap in solar power efficiency” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/sunli...ficiency
 
“Tea, coffee, and matcha aren’t the same for longevity” by Better Than Yesterday: Biohacking & Healthy Aging at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/tea-c...ongevity
 
“This Breakthrough Microchip Could Change Computing Forever” by Claudio Soprano at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/this-...-forever
 
“The Top 10 Micronutrients For Aging Well (Featuring Emily Ho, PhD)” by Mike Lustgarten at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/the-t...y-ho-phd
 
“UPDATE: SpaceX Starship’s Historic 10th Flight Test | Launch, Landing, & Reentry Countdown” by Claudio Soprano at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/updat...ountdown
 
“Voyager missed it, but now we know Uranus has a fiery secret” by Natalie Chan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/voyag...y-secret
 
“Why the US is going back to the moon after 50 years” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/09/why-t...50-years