Lifeboat Foundation

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• Help us design Ark I — our fallback position in case programs such as our BioShield and NanoShield fail.

• Astrophysicist, author, and recording artist Fiorella Terenzi, described by Time Magazine as “a cross between Carl Sagan and Madonna”, joins our Media & Arts Board and Space Settlement Board.
   
  Fiorella has performed and recorded with artists from Herbie Hancock to Ornette Coleman and earned her doctorate in physics from the University of Milan.

• Hanna Tuomisto, who coauthored Assessing the environmental impacts of contrasting farming systems, joins our Sustainability Board.

• Buzz Aldrin joins our Space Settlement Board.
   
  On July 20, 1969, Buzz and Neil Armstrong made their historic Apollo 11 moonwalk, becoming the first two humans to set foot on another world. An estimated 600 million people — at that time, the world's largest television audience in history — witnessed this unprecedented heroic endeavor.

• Read Warning Signs for Tomorrow by Anders Sandberg.

• Henry Markram, director of IBM’s Blue Brain Project, joins our Neuroscience Board. The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to reverse engineer the human brain onto a massive supercomputer.

• Shannon Vyff, author of 21st Century Kids, joins our Education Board.

• Jody Westby, CEO and Founder of Global Cyber Risk, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board. She chairs the American Bar Association’s Privacy & Computer Crime Committee and represents the ABA on the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists.

• Watch a magnificent space compilation on our Videos page.

• Sonia Arrison, an author and policy analyst who has studied the impact of new technologies on society for the better part of a decade, joins our Futurists Board. A frequent media contributor and guest, her work has appeared in many publications including CBS MarketWatch, CNN, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today.

• Read the AsteroidShield program completed by our Scientific Advisory Board. Learn about the dangers caused by asteroids and proposed solutions to this problem.

• Xerox researcher Frédérique Segond, who helped develop an evolutionary search engine that analyzes the meaning of words and contexts and accepts queries in everyday language, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.

• Yousin Suh, coauthor of Genetics of Longevity and Aging, joins our Life Extension Board.
   
  Yousin's laboratory uses novel technology to investigate the genetic components of aging and aging-related disease using functional genomics approaches, focusing on the identification of gene sequence variation (i.e. single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)), in candidate genes and the assessment of their potential functional impact on aging-related phenotypes.

• Gemma Calvert, who established the world’s first applied neuroimaging group, joins our Neuroscience Board.

• We now have quotes by Lord Martin Rees on our Quotes page. Martin was our Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award 2004 winner and is a member of our Scientific Advisory Board.

• Elaine Walker joins our Media & Arts Board and our Space Settlement Board. Watch Martians by ZIA.