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 Sun, 13 May 2012 10:49:24 PDT lifeboatnews@lifeboat.com (Lifeboat News) webmaster@lifeboat.com (Lifeboat Webmaster) http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_13_12_Homesteading_the_Final_Frontier Rand Simberg, author of "Homesteading the Final Frontier", joins our Space Settlement Board. Sun, 13 May 2012 10:49:24 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_13_12_Homesteading_the_Final_Frontier http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_11_12_Virtual_World_Director Angele Lubin, Virtual World Director at Space Renaissance International, joins our Media and Arts Board and our Space Settlement Board. Fri, 11 May 2012 01:29:22 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_11_12_Virtual_World_Director http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_10_12_The_Multisensory_Claustrum Ryan Remedios, coauthor of "Unimodal Responses Prevail within the Multisensory Claustrum", joins our Neuroscience Board. Thu, 10 May 2012 05:02:13 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_10_12_The_Multisensory_Claustrum http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_10_12_Eseco_Systems Ivan Lovric, CEO at Eseco Systems, joins our Futurists Board. Thu, 10 May 2012 03:06:38 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_10_12_Eseco_Systems http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_10_12_Art_of_Flight_Simulation Ron Reisman, author of "A Brief Introduction to the Art of Flight Simulation", joins our Information Sciences Board. Thu, 10 May 2012 02:31:55 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_10_12_Art_of_Flight_Simulation http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_10_12_Urzica_Oliver Urzica Oliver, with S.C KOZ-SERVICE S.R.L. of Romania, joins our Futurists Board. Thu, 10 May 2012 00:46:10 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_10_12_Urzica_Oliver http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_09_12_The_Refined_Geek David Klemke, author of the blog The Refined Geek, joins our Futurists Board. Wed, 09 May 2012 16:57:01 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_09_12_The_Refined_Geek http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_09_12_Terasem_Movement Lori Rhodes, Legal Research/HR Manager at Terasem Movement, joins our Futurists Board. Wed, 09 May 2012 05:10:49 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_09_12_Terasem_Movement http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_09_12_United_Space_Structures Bill Kemp, CEO at United Space Structures, joins our Space Settlement Board. Wed, 09 May 2012 02:01:47 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_09_12_United_Space_Structures http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_09_12_An_Evolutionary_Proteomics_Approach Yelena Budovskaya, coauthor of "An Evolutionary Proteomics Approach Identifies Substrates of the cAMP-Dependent Protein Kinase", joins our Life Extension Board. Wed, 09 May 2012 00:04:55 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_09_12_An_Evolutionary_Proteomics_Approach http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_08_12_Space_Weather_Expert Mike Hapgood joins our Physics Board. Mike is Head, Space Environment Group, RAL Space, and STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Read "Space Weather Expert has Ominous Forecast". Tue, 08 May 2012 11:40:03 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_08_12_Space_Weather_Expert http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_06_12_Nobel_Laureate_Support Nobel Laureate Richard J. Roberts joins our Policy Board. Rich was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing. Sun, 06 May 2012 09:29:46 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_06_12_Nobel_Laureate_Support http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_04_12_Transhumanism_and_Human_Space_Exploration The National Space Society is holding, for the first time ever, track sessions on Transhumanism and Human Space Exploration at this year's International Space Development Conference, which will be held over Memorial Day weekend, May 24-28, 2012. The track will be held on Sunday, May 27th and you can register at ISDC 2012. Track Lead is our Natasha Vita-More. Speakers include our Ben Goertzel, David Orban, and Paul Werbos. Fri, 04 May 2012 13:06:59 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_04_12_Transhumanism_and_Human_Space_Exploration http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_01_12_Technopolis_Now Our James Shaughnessy's film "Technopolis Now" just got accepted into the Breckinridge Film Festival and will be screening in Breckinridge, Colorado on June 6-7. Watch its trailer. Tue, 01 May 2012 19:29:31 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_01_12_Technopolis_Now http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#04_30_12_Issue_117_of_Lifeboat_News Read issue #117 of Lifeboat News! Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:26:17 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#04_30_12_Issue_117_of_Lifeboat_News