Triple Partnership
The Lifeboat Foundation has activated a triple partnership including the
Lifeboat Foundation, Nanotech-Now, and The American Journal of
Bioethics.
The Lifeboat Foundation is launching a monthly column addressing the
ethical issues that scientists and consumers of nanotechnology will
face. Its column editor is Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board
member Summer Johnson, who is Executive Managing Editor of The American
Journal of Bioethics and Chief Operating Officer, Bioethics Education
Network. Her bio is at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.summer.johnson
Summer says
"The literature in this area is not growing at nearly 1/10th of the pace of the nanoscience literature itself and it is my belief that ethicists, scientists, and lay people should be aware of these issues (sooner rather than later)."
Summer wrote the first column which has now been published at
http://www.nanotech-now.com/columns/?article=263 The next three columns
will be authored by the Lifeboat Foundation's Bob Krone, Tom Powers, and
Tihamer T. Toth-Fejel.
Nanotech-Now has agreed to run this column. They will give the column
front and center placement once a month for 24 hours then a rotation
down the homepage as their other columns load their articles. Google
News indexes their columns every 15 minutes.
The American Journal of Bioethics and its website, bioethics.net are
also sponsoring the column by featuring it on their website as well as
their blog. In addition, for each column, they will coordinate the
production of an accompanying podcast by the author discussing the
column which will be hosted on their website, podcast.bioethics.net.
Bioethics.net has approximately 22 million viewers per year and
podcast.bioethics.net, started just last year, averaged 20,000 downloads
per podcast in 2008. They have the technological capacity to do these
podcasts with authors around the country and make them available 24/7. Soon they will have a site via Beyond Campus on iTunes University where
they will transfer all of this material and repost it as a channel
accessible to all via iTunes or RSS feed on bioethics.net.
Learn more at http://lifeboat.com/ex/press.releases.t...tnership
Lots of Progress
Here are other recent accomplishments:
Stephen Hawking named Lifeboat Foundation 2008 Guardian Award Winner
http://lifeboat.com/ex/press.releases.s...d.winner
The Lifeboat Foundation and its donors are sponsoring Nobel Laureate
Wole Soyinka into Zero G
http://lifeboat.com/ex/press.releases.w...n.zero.g
Lifeboat Foundation Supports its First Conference
http://lifeboat.com/ex/press.releases.g...ic.risks
In addition to the above, we have had more blog posts than normal
at http://lifeboat.com/blog which is helpful to our goal of educating
the public.
Help Us
We are close to reaching our goal at
https://lifeboat.com/ex/wole.soyinka.in.zero.g
Help us reach the finish line!
Blog Team
Summer Johnson joins our blog team with the post "Could Spider Silk Save
Your Life?" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=186
Jim Pinkerton joins our blog team with the post "What should be at the
center of the U.S. stimulus package" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=185
More Languages
Olli Sikstus translates our about page into Finnish at http://lifeboat.com/ex/about.finnish
Growing Membership
Here are some of the recent donations/pledges we have received since
the last newsletter:
Dan Stoicescu: $1,000,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $570,
Chris Poulin: $500,
Ed Begley, Jr.: $200,
Chris Abani: $100,
Michael L. Anderson: $100,
Rob Enderle: $100,
Kattesh V. Katti: $100,
Albert "Skip" Rizzo: $100,
Mark A. Smith: $100,
Michael Anissimov: $85,
Eric Bauswell: $85,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Jason Gaverick Matheny: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
Danny Belkin: $75,
Rudi Hoffman: $75,
John A. Barnden: $50,
Brenda Cooper: $50,
Andrew Hessel: $50,
C M Anderson: $25,
Adam Dobrin: $25,
Matt Duing: $25,
Rick Hubbard: $25,
Alan R. Light: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Adrian-Bodgan Morut (Adi): $25,
Peter Murray: $25,
Natasha Vita-More: $25,
Anonymous: $20,
Ronald Amos: $10,
Alexander Braitberg: $10,
Stephen Fleming: $10,
Christopher Dilkus: $10,
Sylvia Engdahl: $10,
George Garrett: $10,
Joseph P. Jackson III: $10,
Susan Kent: $10,
Sheridan Layman: $10,
John McClain: $10,
Glenn A. Miller: $10,
John N. Philipps (Jack): $10,
Kaj Sotala: $10,
Devin Trevena: $10,
John Paul Browne: $5,
Wendy Leal: $5,
Karen McKormick: $5,
Eugene Rmishevskiy: $5,
Atreyu Vann: $5,
Gabriela Vann: $5,
and Helen Vann: $5.
Our Join Us page at https://lifeboat.com/ex/join.us now allows you to
pay for your membership anywhere from monthly to every ten years.
