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LIFEBOAT NEWS
Jul 3 -
Gilly Salmon joins our Education
Board.
Gilly is the author of the work now considered seminal in the
field of teaching online:
E-Moderating: The Key to Teaching and Learning
Online.
Jul 3 -
See 370 books authored
by our Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) members!
Jul 2 -
The Lifeboat Foundation celebrates the addition of our 1,000th SAB
member: A. C. Grayling.
Anthony is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London and
a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford.
Anthony uses philosophical logic to counter the arguments of the
sceptic, thereby shedding light on the traditional ideas of the realism
debate and developing associated views on truth and meaning. He is the
author of many books, articles, and papers.
Unlike most organizations, whose advisory boards are too small to do
more
than provide some advice, our think tank provides action as well as
words.
Our board members have
developed
programs,
created
reports,
donated money, fueled our
blog, joined our
staff,
launched numerous
forums,
organized
events, and provided
input on a
range of issues from web design to grant proposals to ideas for new
areas that
Lifeboat Foundation should be involved in. We welcome A. C. Grayling to
our little think tank!
Jul 2 -
Jeffrey Collins,
Director,
OUSA, International Programs,
Oglethorpe University, joins our Futurists Board.
Jul 1 -
Read
Planetary Messenger by our
Jacob D. Haqq-Misra. This novel explores the social, scientific,
and spiritual consequences of discovering another planet in the galaxy
just like our Earth.
Jul 1 -
Karim Medjad joins our Legal
Board. Karim is Professor of Law at H.E.C Paris, the most prestigious
Business School in France.
Jul 1 -
Read
issue #83 of Lifeboat News!
Jul 1 -
Bud Levin joins our Futurists
Board. Bud is Vice Chairman of the FBI/PFI Futures Working Group,
Commander of the Waynesboro (VA) Police Department's Policy and Planning
Bureau, and Department Head of Psychology, Blue Ridge
Community College in Weyers Cave, Virginia.
Jul 1 -
Michael Dickey joins our blog team with the post
Electron Beam Free Form Fabrication process -
progress toward self sustaining structures.
Jun 28 -
Bruce Lloyd, Emeritus Professor of
Strategic Management, London South Bank University, London, United
Kingdom, joins our Business Board.
Jun 27 -
Diana Muir joins our Education
Board. Diana
is the founder of the
Hawking Institute and of the
Personal Learning
Center, International.
Jun 27 -
Our
WorldFuture 2009
lineup has been improved to include
Craig Bettles, Peter Bishop, Arthur L. Caplan, Joseph F. Coates, José Cordeiro,
William Crossman,
Irene J. Dabrowski, Jay Gary, Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon,
Terry Grim,
Linda Groff,
Arthur Harkins,
Don Heathfield,
Jay Herson,
Thomas J. Lombardo,
Gary Marx,
Amy Oberg, Ian D. Pearson, Rick Smyre,
Stephen F. Steele,
Don Tapscott, and
Michael G. Zey.
Jun 27 -
Arthur Harkins,
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Policy and
Administration, Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology, and Faculty
Director, Graduate Certificate in Innovation Studies at the University
of Minnesota, joins our Education Board.
Jun 25 -
Mark Nall,
Manager of the NASA Lunar Mapping and Modeling Project at Marshall Space
Flight Center, joins our Space Settlement Board.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
WorldFuture 2009 will be
held July 17-19, 2009 at the Chicago Hilton in Chicago, Illinois. Our Craig Bettles, Peter Bishop, Arthur L. Caplan, Joseph F. Coates,
Jeffrey Collins,
José Cordeiro,
William Crossman,
Irene J. Dabrowski, Jay Gary, Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon,
Terry Grim,
Linda Groff,
Arthur Harkins,
Don Heathfield,
Jay Herson,
Bud Levin,
Thomas J. Lombardo,
Bruce Lloyd,
Gary Marx,
Karim Medjad,
Diana Muir,
Amy Oberg, Ian D. Pearson,
Gilly Salmon,
Rick Smyre,
Stephen F. Steele,
Don Tapscott, and
Michael G. Zey
will be
speaking/presenting papers.
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FEATURED STORIES
Theoretical physicist-cosmologist
Laura Mersini-Houghton,
author of
Birth of the Universe from the Multiverse, joins our
Cosmology Board. Laura is particularly interested in the possibility of
generating dark energy from transplanckian physics in string theory,
gravity and quantum field theory in curved space, and higher-dimension
braneworlds.
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Rafaela Hillerbrand joins our
Complex Systems Board and Ethics Board. She is a member of the
Future of Humanity
Institute staff and earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from
the University of Erlangen-Nünberg and a Ph.D. in Theoretical
Physics at the
University of Müster and the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur.
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Alexander "Sasha"
Kashlinsky, who has discovered
"dark flow" which is
causing hundreds of clusters of galaxies to stream en masse towards
a region
at the edge of the visible universe, joins our Cosmology
Board. Sasha is
Senior Staff Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
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The Speculist
says "How about a story arc in which
Sarah and John elicit
the help of the Lifeboat Foundation in warding off the rise of the
machines? I'd like to see a heavily armed paramilitary cell within the
foundation all decked out in camouflage and talking trash about 'tearing
Skynet a new memory cache' and the like."
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Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google and coauthor of
Artificial
Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the leading textbook in the
field,
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Andrzej Bartke, winner of the first
Methuselah Mouse Prize, joins our
Scientific Advisory Board.
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Read the
AsteroidShield program completed by our Scientific Advisory Board.
Learn about the dangers caused by asteroids and proposed solutions to
this problem.
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