http://lifeboat.com/ Learn how Lifeboat Foundation is helping humanity survive existential risks and possible misuse of increasingly powerful technologies, including genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and robotics/AI, as we move towards a technological singularity. en-us 120 Copyright 2002-2010 Lifeboat Foundation Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:50:10 PDT lifeboatnews@lifeboat.com (Lifeboat News) webmaster@lifeboat.com (Lifeboat Webmaster) http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#09_08_10_Complex_Systems Jacopo Tagliabue, coauthor of "The Effect of Leverage on Financial Markets", joins our Complex Systems Board. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:50:10 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#09_08_10_Complex_Systems http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#09_08_10_Gaston_and_Gaston Frederick Gaston, of Gaston & Gaston, joins our Legal Board. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:53:36 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#09_08_10_Gaston_and_Gaston http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#09_03_10_Boundary_String_Field_Theory Marco Baumgartl joins our Cosmology Board and Physics Board. Marco is the author of "Backgrounds in Boundary String Field Theory". He is the initiator and organizer of the SFP: International School on Strings and Fundamental Physics and the FoG-workshop Fundaments of Gravity. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:51:16 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#09_03_10_Boundary_String_Field_Theory http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#09_03_10_Caught_in_the_Machinery Jamie Bronstein, author of "Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain", "Land Reform and Working-Class Experience in Britain and the United States, 1800-1862", and "John Francis Bray: Transatlantic Radical", joins our Human Trajectories Board. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:33:26 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#09_03_10_Caught_in_the_Machinery http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#09_03_10_Calculation_of_Humanity_s_Survivability The theme for Rome's next science festival is "Science and the End of the World". It will run from Thursday 20 January 2011 to Sunday 23. On Saturday, our Willard Wells will give a slide presentation with the tentative title "Calculation of Humanity's Survivability". The event, as always, will take place in Renzo Piano's striking Auditorium Parco della Musica. The fifth edition of the Festival, in 2009, on Scientific Research and Technology, was an extraordinary success, with a total number of 45,000 members of the public attending it. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:09:34 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#09_03_10_Calculation_of_Humanity_s_Survivability http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#09_02_10_The_End_of_the_World_and_Architecture Read "The End of the World and Architecture" by Michael A. Richards. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:01:46 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#09_02_10_The_End_of_the_World_and_Architecture http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_27_10_Avidians Jeff Clune, creator of the Avidians artificial life forms that evolve basic intelligence, joins our Robotics/AI Board. Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:40:36 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_27_10_Avidians http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_25_10_Issue_98_of_Lifeboat_News Read issue #98 of Lifeboat News! Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:39:16 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_25_10_Issue_98_of_Lifeboat_News http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_24_10_Second_SENS_Foundation_L_A_Chapter_meeting The second SENS Foundation L.A. Chapter meeting will be held on Friday, August 27th at the Westwood Brewing Company (1097 Glendon Avenue, Los Angeles, CA) from 6pm until everyone has had enough fun. The meeting is being organized by our Maria Entraigues who can be contacted at maria.entraigues@sens.org. Dr. Sarah Marr, SENS Foundation Vice President, will be attending. Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:44:23 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_24_10_Second_SENS_Foundation_L_A_Chapter_meeting http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_24_10_The_Quest_for_Immortality S. Jay Olshansky, first author of "The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging", joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Watch his "60 Minutes" interview. Watch him on "Charlie Rose". Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:35:00 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_24_10_The_Quest_for_Immortality http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_22_10_Linh_Truong Linh Truong joins our Media and Arts Board. Sun, 22 Aug 2010 05:40:55 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_22_10_Linh_Truong http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_20_10_Biology_is_Technology Rob Carlson, author of Biology Is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life", joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:44:46 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_20_10_Biology_is_Technology http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_18_10_Personalized_Life_Extension_Conference_2010 Our Sonia Arrison, Gregory Benford, Greg Fahy, Terry Grossman, Sheldon Saul Hendler, Raymond McCauley, and Melanie Swan will be speaking at the Personalized Life Extension Conference 2010 on October 9 and October 10 in San Francisco. Use the code LIFEBOAT to get $100 off this conference. Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:58:24 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_18_10_Personalized_Life_Extension_Conference_2010 http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_15_10_Hybrots Peter Passaro, coauthor of "Hybrots: Hybrids of Living Neurons and Robots for Studying Neural Computation", joins our Neuroscience Board and Robotics/AI Board. Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:37:34 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_15_10_Hybrots http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_10_10_Issue_97_of_Lifeboat_News Read issue #97 of Lifeboat News! Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:13:19 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#08_10_10_Issue_97_of_Lifeboat_News