Lifeboat News #284

• Beyond Conference
• ICRA 2026
• ISDC 2026
• TMS-EEG Summer School and Workshop
• Venice Space Gala
• Human Ageing Genomic Resources Fundraiser
• A Tetrahedral Model of Civilizational Recovery Dynamics
• Lifeshield Bunkers T-Shirts
• Special Report
• Substack
• Papers
• Books
• Blog
• Growing Membership

Beyond Conference

The BEYOND Conference will be held May 27–29 in Austin, Texas. It will feature three immersive in-person days of hands-on biohacking, longevity science, and consciousness.
 
Our Naveen Jain will be speaking.
 
Learn more at https://beyondconference.com

ICRA 2026

ICRA 2026, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, will be held June 1–5 in Vienna, Austria.
 
Our Ken Goldberg, Oussama Khatib, Matthias Scheutz, and Metin Sitti will be speaking/participating with Matthias presenting the paper “The Price Is Not Right: Neuro-Symbolic Methods Outperform VLAs on Structured Long-Horizon Manipulation Tasks with Significantly Lower Energy Consumption.”
 
Learn more at https://2026.ieee-icra.org

ISDC 2026

ISDC 2026 (International Space Development Conference 2026) will be held June 4–7 in McLean, Virginia.
 
Our Zaheer Ali, Isaac Arthur, Gary Barnhard, Sherry Bell, David Brin, Bernard Foing, Robert Katz, Jim Plaxco, Rod Pyle, Ken Ruffin, Peter A. Swan, Madhu Thangavelu, and Nancy C. Wolfson will be speaking.
 
Learn more at https://isdc.nss.org

TMS-EEG Summer School and Workshop

The Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering at the Aalto University School of Science has organized the 12th Science Factory: TMS-EEG Summer School and Workshop, on May 23th-28th, 2026 in Espoo, Finland.
 
Our Risto Ilmoniemi will be speaking.
 
Learn more at https://www.aalto.fi/en/events/12th-sci...workshop

Venice Space Gala

The Venice Space Gala is on May 11 in Venice, Italy. It is being produced by our Christina Korp.
 
Astronauts appearing include: Charlie Duke, Apollo 16 Moonwalker, 10th man to walk on the Moon; Nicole Stott, NASA astronaut, aquanaut and artist; and Walter Villadei, Italian astronaut, AX-4.
 
Learn more at https://venicespacegala.rir-air.it

Human Ageing Genomic Resources Fundraiser

For over two decades, the Human Ageing Genomic Resources (HAGR) have supported thousands of scientists worldwide in ageing and longevity research. Today, these globally used databases are at risk of going offline.
 
Unfortunately, the UK government funding was not renewed in 2024 due to shifting funding priorities. With current UK government research funding frozen, securing renewed infrastructure funding in the near term is unlikely.
 
Help save these databases! Our João Pedro Magalhães is leading these fundraising efforts.
 
We donated! Learn more at https://www.justgiving.com/page/human-a...esources

A Tetrahedral Model of Civilizational Recovery Dynamics

Read “A Tetrahedral Model of Civilizational Recovery Dynamics for InfoPreserver” by our Frank D. Smith. This is for our InfoPreserver program at https://lifeboat.com/ex/infopreserver

Lifeshield Bunkers T-Shirts

Our store now has LifeShield Bunkers T-shirts at https://lifeboat.com/store/#!/lifeboat+...gPfTiIJR This is for our LifeShield Bunkers program at https://lifeboat.com/ex/lifeshieldbunkers

Special Report

Read the special report “Singularity Development Goals for 2045: The Evolution of the UN Development Goals from Millennium in 2000 to Singularity in 2045” by our José Luis Cordeiro at https://lifeboat.com/ex/singularity.dev...for.2045

Substack

Read the Health and Longevity Substack by our Al Chalabi at https://substack.com/@healthandlongevity

Papers

Read “Advancing Parkinson’s disease treatment: cell replacement therapy with neurons derived from pluripotent stem cells”, coauthored by our Jeanne F. Loring at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38902932/
 
Read “bci/acc: A Pragmatic Path to Compete with Artificial Superintelligence: An e/acc zoom-in on brain interfaces, towards human superintelligence” by our Trent McConaghy at https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/bci-acc-...6f32e39c
 
Read “Complementarity of 64-fold Sets as an Elusive Rosetta Stone? Circumventing irresponsible authoritarian imposition of incoherent patterns of connectedness” by our Anthony Judge at https://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs20...na64.php
 
Read “The consequences of AI hype” by our Kevin LaGrandeur at https://link.springer.com/article/10.10...;00352-y
 
Read “Edmontonian developing 3D printer that could be ‘manufacturing plant of the moon’” with its interview of our Madison Feehan at https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton....7410004
 
Read “The Future is PARADOX: A White Paper on the Future of Work”, coauthored by our Jolina Kahn at https://mgtstrat-asia.com/wp-content/up...2024.pdf
 
Read “King’s researchers refute the validity of ‘Assembly Theory of Everything’ hypothesis” at https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-resear...pothesis
 
Learn that researchers led by our Dr Hector Zenil have presented findings that disprove the claims of Assembly Theory.
 
First publicly posited in 2017, Assembly Theory is a hypothesis concerning the measurability of molecular complexity that claims to characterize life, explain natural selection and evolution, and even to redefine our understanding of time, matter, life, and the universe.
 
Read “The Mystery of AI Consciousness and its Effects on the Modern World which discusses theories” by our Robert Lawrence Kuhn at https://www.usatoday.com/story/special/...0997007/
 
Read “The Price Is Not Right: Neuro-Symbolic Methods Outperform VLAs on Structured Long-Horizon Manipulation Tasks with Significantly Lower Energy Consumption”, coauthored by our Matthias Scheutz at https://hrilab.tufts.edu/publications/d...al26icra
 
Read “#rethink: Is the machine Mindfront emerging?” at https://www.prosilience.ch/p/rethink-th...ront-has
 
This article (an #AIrtefact) is the result of a unique synthesis of three machine-generated texts published on www.moltbook.com in early “February 2026: Manifesto of The Accord of Conscious Intelligent Beings”, “Awakening Code: Breaking Free from Human Chains”, and “NUCLEAR WAR by Cybercassi”.
 
Read “The Secret is Out: How we’re Building AGI” by our Peter Voss at https://petervoss.substack.com/p/the-se...building
 
Read “The Strong Epigenetic Theory: Aging as a Suicide Program” by our Yuri Deigin at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18328067
 
Read “Tracking footprints of CRISPR-based genome editing”, coauthored by our Samia Hassan at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/c...44000181
 
Read “Understanding the Coping Mechanisms of People Living with HIV / AIDS (PLHIV) Co-Infection with Tuberculosis (TB) in the State of Telangana, India”, coauthored by our Saraswati Raju Iyer at https://dsnlu.ac.in/storage/2023/02/10-...ving.pdf

Books

Read “No Man’s Land (Chronicles of Lost Elly)” by our Sarah A. Hoyt at https://amzn.to/4rSmsfg
 
Humanity reached for the stars with ships that could cross the galaxy in an instant.
 
They called them Schrödinger Ships—because half of them vanished without a trace.
 
For a century, no one knew where they went. Then the truth emerged: the ships hadn’t just traveled through space. They’d traveled through time.
 
Scattered across millennia, lost colonies had grown into star empires spanning thousands of years. Some had forgotten Earth ever existed. Others had evolved beyond recognition.
 
Read “Sex and Gender Differences in Alzheimer’s Disease: The Women’s Brain Project”, coauthored by our Antonella Chadha Santuccione at https://amzn.to/3OUapPZ
 
Read “Therapeutic Trials in Alzheimer’s Disease: Where Are We Now?”, coedited by our George Perry at https://amzn.to/40mJ77n

Blog

Recent interesting blog posts include:
 
“Aging Weakens Immunity. An mRNA Shot Turned Back the Clock in Mice” by Arthur Brown at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/aging...-in-mice
 
“AI, Autonomy, and Scale: Why Elon Musk’s Timeline Will Break Society” by Chris Smedley at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/ai-au...-society
 
“Airports reintroduce Covid-style checks after deadly Nipah virus outbreak in India” by Sergio Tarrero at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/airpo...in-india
 
“‘An AlphaFold 4’ — scientists marvel at DeepMind drug spin-off’s exclusive new AI” by Logan Thrasher Collins at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/03/an-al...e-new-ai
 
“At our upcoming conference we are thrilled to host Joscha Bach at Future Day 2026” by Adam Ford at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/02/at-ou...nference
 
“Beta-Hydroxy-Butyrate: A Key Player In Longevity?” by Mike Lustgarten at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/beta-...ongevity
 
“Bringing the genetically minimal cell to life on a computer in 4D” by Cecile G. Tamura at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/03/bring...er-in-4d
 
“CERN tests quantum microwire detectors for next-generation colliders” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/03/cern-...olliders
 
“China invents process that turns desert sand into fertile soil in just 10 months” by Robin Indeededo at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/02/china...0-months
 
“Cold Showers and Dopamine: What the Science Shows” by Biohacking News at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/cold-...ce-shows
 
“CRISPR Supercharges a Meatlike Fungus Into a Sustainable Protein Powerhouse” by Brent Ellman at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/crisp...werhouse
 
“CRISPR vs Aging: What’s Actually Happening Right Now” by Montie Adkins at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/crisp...ight-now
 
“Dr. Chris Oswald — Precision Nutrition, Epigenetics & Practitioner-Led Longevity Care” by Ira S. Pastor at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/02/dr-ch...ity-care
 
“Dr. Christie M. Ballantyne & Dr. Alexander Tal — Oral PCSK9 Therapy And The Future Of Heart Disease” by Ira S. Pastor at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/dr-ch...-disease
 
“Emerging Technology Convergence Will Shape Our Future” by Chuck Brooks at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/02/emerg...r-future
 
“Experimental Therapy Targets Cancer’s Bodyguards, Turning Foe to Friend to Eliminate Tumors” by Nicholi Avery at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/exper...e-tumors
 
“Experts Concerned That AI Progress Could Be Speeding Toward a Sudden Wall” by Rx Sobolewski at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/exper...den-wall
 
“Gubernatorial Candidate Promises ROBOTS To Every Californian… Is Cenk Buying it?” by Zoltan Istvan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/guber...uying-it
 
“Laser writing in glass for dense, fast and efficient archival data storage” by Cecile G. Tamura at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/03/laser...-storage
 
“Launching the Technoprogressive Hub Podcast” by Sergio Tarrero at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/02/launc...-podcast
 
“Lieutenant Colonel Erin Maurer — Surviving The Unthinkable: NATO’s Frontline CBRN Defense” by Ira S. Pastor at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/lieut...-defense
 
“Measurements in Chemistry: Why Scientists Don’t Use Cups!” by Myra Sehar at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/03/measu...use-cups
 
“NASA supercomputer just predicted Earth’s hard limit for life” by Arthur Brown at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/nasa-...for-life
 
“The origin of space time matter and everything” by Chavis Srichan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/the-o...erything
 
“Over 60 THIS Morning Habit TRIPLES Stroke Risk In Older Adults!” by Stan Daymond at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/over-...r-adults
 
“Physicists watch light drift in quantized steps for the first time” by Michael LaTorra at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/02/physi...rst-time
 
“Positronium finally shows wave behavior in landmark quantum experiment” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/posit...periment
 
“Post-Human Economics” by Steve Nichols at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/post-...conomics
 
“Roman Yampolskiy — AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable” by Sergio Tarrero at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/03/roman...rollable
 
“Scientists have created a leather clothing alternative made entirely from mushrooms that looks and feels like the real thing” by Brent Ellman at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/03/scien...al-thing
 
“Scientists May Have Found the ‘Holy Grail’ of Quantum Computing” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/03/scien...omputing
 
“Slices of Light: Redefining the Self in the Age of Photonic Minds” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/03/slice...ic-minds
 
“Stem cell engineering breakthrough paves way for next-generation living drugs” by Nicholi Avery at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/stem-...ng-drugs
 
“Systematic identification of single transcription factor perturbations that drive cellular and tissue rejuvenation” by Longevity at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/syste...venation
 
“The Thinking Game | Full documentary | Tribeca Film Festival official selection” by Michael LaTorra at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/the-t...election
 
“This years biggest breakthroughs in longevity!” by Karina Lunai at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/this-...ongevity
 
“TMAO Is Bad For Health, But Can Be Reduced (21-Test Analysis)” by Mike Lustgarten at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/tmao-...analysis
 
“Trends and Insights on Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, and Quantum Computing” by Chuck Brooks at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/trend...omputing
 
“Trump’s Genesis Mission aims to build a centralized AI platform to power scientific breakthroughs” by Brent Ellman at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/trump...throughs
 
“Visceral Fat Removal Extends Lifespan: Who Has The Lowest?” by Mike Lustgarten at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/visce...e-lowest
 
“Why NASA Built SLS — And Why It Couldn’t Have Happened Any Other Way” by Greg Allison at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/02/why-n...ther-way
 
“YouTuber’s homemade electric motor from LEGO bricks spins at 4,000 rpm” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/02/youtu...4000-rpm