Due to warnings by Stephen Hawking and
others, the Doomsday Clock has been moved to five minutes before
midnight.
Learn about the dawn of a second "nuclear age".
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LIFEBOAT NEWS 
Aug 7 -
James P. Evans,
Editor-in-Chief of
Genetics in Medicine, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Read
Biologist Teaches the Nation's Judges About Genetics.
Aug 6 -
Sumeet Dua, coauthor of
Classification of Heart Rate Data Using Artificial Neural Network and
Fuzzy Equivalence Relation, joins our Information Sciences
Board. Sumeet specializes in the design of algorithms for analysis of
microarray gene expression and protein sequence/structure data to
help fuel
physiological information discovery.
Aug 6 -
Shane Legg, author of
Friendly AI is Bunk and coauthor of
Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence,
joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Aug 6 -
Tim Freeman, author of
Using Compassion and Respect to Motivate an Artificial
Intelligence, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Aug 5 -
Brian Wang upgrades our
LifeShield Bunkers program.
Aug 4 -
Teena James, coauthor of
Active MOS Capacitive Sensor Array for Lab-On-a-Chip
Applications, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Aug 4 -
Michael Shermer joins our Scientific Advisory Board. He is the
Founding Publisher of
Skeptic
magazine, the Executive Director of the Skeptics Society, a monthly
columnist for
Scientific American, the host of the
Skeptics
Distinguished Science Lecture Series at Caltech, and Adjunct
Professor
of Economics at Claremont Graduate University.
Read his
Toward a Type 1 Civilization.
Aug 4 -
Manu Sebastian Mannoor,
coauthor of
BioMEMS — Advancing the Frontiers of Medicine, joins our
Nanotechnology Board.
Aug 3 -
Peter Kalivas joins our
Neuroscience Board. He is a member of the NARSAD Scientific Council and
Professor and Chair of Neurosciences, The Neuroscience Institute,
Medical University of South Carolina.
NARSAD is the world's
leading charity dedicated to mental health research.
Aug 1 -
Andrew Braswell joins our
Economics Board and Finance Board. He is
Director of Research,
iNano Capital Markets. He oversees all of
the firm's published investment research, including pure-play coverage,
theme-based reports, and its weekly iNano Focus.
Jul 30 -
Thanks to input from
Joscha Bach,
Matt Bamberger,
Daniel Berleant, and
Joshua Fox, our
AIShield Program has been improved.
Jul 30 -
Balaji "Baloo" Panchapakesan, who developed a
unique nanobomb that can literally blow up cancer tumors, joins our
Biotech/Medical Board and Nanotechnology Board.
Baloo will also be speaking at
NanoTX USA, an international conference and trade expo covering
nanotechnology which will be held Oct 2-3, 2008 in Austin,
Texas. This event highlights advances in nanoscience and explains how
nanotechnology is being used today and how it will impact a broad range
of industries tomorrow: electronics, energy, aerospace, defense,
biomedicine, robotics, chemicals, and more.
Jul 29 -
Alexandra Carmichael joins
our Biotech/Medical Board. She is
cofounder of
CureTogether, an open source health research company that
brings patients and researchers together to collaborate with each other
on the path to finding cures for human diseases.
Jul 29 -
Didier Sornette, who has
discovered that
we are in the peak of an oil bubble, joins our Complex
Systems
Board and Economics Board.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Our
Andrew Braswell,
Teena James,
Manu Sebastian Mannoor,
and
Balaji "Baloo" Panchapakesan will be
speaking at
NanoTX USA, an international conference and trade expo covering
nanotechnology which will be held Oct 2-3, 2008 in Austin,
Texas.
This event highlights advances in nanoscience and explains how
nanotechnology is being used today and how it will impact a broad range
of industries tomorrow: electronics, energy, aerospace, defense,
biomedicine, robotics, chemicals, and more.
Our
Mark J. Clement and
Sumeet Dua
will be participating in the
Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium
(BIOT 2008) which will be held October 17-18, 2008 in Arlington, Texas.
This symposium brings together
scientists, engineers, and scholars from relevant fields with
practitioners from industry in order to help each group to understand
progress made in the area as a whole.
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Read the "officially endorsed by Lifeboat Foundation" blogs
NanoHype: Nanotechnology Implications and Interactions,
Next Big Future,
and
Responsible Nanotechnology by
our SAB members
David Berube,
Brian Wang, and
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We now have
quotes by
Ray Kurzweil on our Quotes page.
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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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The Lifeboat Foundation now has a new official
song and a
MySpace page! (You may also be cheered up by this
song.)
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Our Scientific Advisory Board completes our
NanoShield program which provides solutions to
ecophages and nonreplicating nanoweapons. |
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Read our blog entry
"Doomsday" vault design unveiled.
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Watch
Nokia Morph Concept.
Morph is a concept demonstrating some of the possibilities
nanotechnologies might enable in future communication
devices.
Morph can
sense its environment, is energy harvesting, and self cleaning.
Morph is a flexible two-piece device that can adapt its shape to
different use modes. Nanotechnology enables us to have adaptive
materials
yet rigid forms on demand.
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Philippe Van Nedervelde joins the
Lifeboat 500,
becoming one of a few special individuals and organizations to make a
meaningful, but
affordable commitment of the price of a cup of coffee a day, in order
to
help us grow! |
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Yi-Fen Lee, who discovered that
Vitamin D protects cells from stress that can lead to cancer, joins
our
Biotech/Medical Board.
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