Greg Bear Memorial
Our Greg Bear unfortunately passed away. Greg was previously President
of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) and was
husband of our Astrid Bear.
Greg was Consulting Judge for our Lifeboat to the Stars award and he
contributed to Lifeboat Foundation’s Visions of the Future which reached
#1 under “Hot New Releases in Science Fiction Anthologies” on Amazon. As
an accomplished science fiction author of over 50 novels, Greg received
five Nebula Awards and two Hugo Awards. He even helped the government
prepare for attacks of the future, working with our Arlan Andrews and
Jerry Pournelle.
Learn more at
https://lifeboat.com/ex/press.releases....ses.away
Cities in Space® 2023
Cities in Space® 2023 will be held March 24, 2023 at 9:00 AM to 5:30
PM CST in Austin, Texas.
Our Janet Ivey, Holly Melear, Haroon Oqab, Jeff Smith, and Rick
Tumlinson will be speaking.
Learn more at
https://steam-space.org/student-competi...ace-2023
Longevity Summit 2022
The Longevity Summit 2022 will be held December 6–7 in Novato,
California.
Our Stephanie Dainow, Matt Kaeberlein, Morgan Levine, Matthew “Oki”
O’Connor, and Marco Quarta will be speaking.
Learn more at https://longevitysummit.io
Books
Read the first contact science fiction book “The Angrelline” by our Pete
Bonasso at https://amzn.to/3Ua1ZBR. This is a sequel to “Portals”.
Read “Becoming Off-Worldly: Learning from Astronauts to Prepare for Your
Spaceflight Journey” by our Laura Forczyk at https://amzn.to/3hjm1Lo
This book includes a forward by our Frank White.
Read “Cryostasis Revival: The Recovery of Cryonics Patients through
Nanomedicine” by our Robert A. Freitas Jr. at https://amzn.to/3NDmvbo
You can also read this 700+ page book for free at
https://www.alcor.org/docs/CryostasisRe...2.11.pdf
Read “ES 1 – Fall: EggShell” by our Alex Thatcher at
https://amzn.to/3EJYYmz. Kamron Armour, an A.I. created from the mind
graft of a human from the 21st century, is brought back online 50,000
years later by a human with no name except Man O’ War. This “Man O’ War”
appears, impossibly, to be a friend from the 21st century, somehow,
still alive.
Read “Fender the Fall: A Sci-Fi Novella” by our Roy Christopher at
https://amzn.to/3h9kJCB
Read “Meat Market: 13th Anniversary Odd Edition” by our Alex Thatcher at
https://amzn.to/3EECymv. In one generation, our society’s technology,
morals, beliefs and fundamental place in the universe changed
drastically. With lifespans becoming longer and technological gains
coming quicker, terms and definitions being redefined weekly, if not
daily, what might occur in the next generation?
Read the first contact science fiction book “Portals” by our Pete
Bonasso at https://amzn.to/2BNM9Wo
Read “The Random and Fluctuating World: Celebrating Two Decades of
Fluctuation and Noise Letters” coedited by our Laszlo Kish at
https://amzn.to/3zTEIvF
Read “Sovereign Mars: Transforming Our Values through Space Settlement”
by our Jacob Haqq-Misra at https://amzn.to/3gbrnbu
Blog
Al Karaki joins our blog team with the post “NoWhere to EMIT, NoWhere to
HIDE” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/nowhe...-to-hide
Jeff Kendall joins our blog team with the post “Age of the Androids” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/age-o...androids
Sara Negar joins our blog team with the post “World’s first cloned
arctic wolf is now 100 days old” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/world...days-old
Frank Schueler joins our blog team with the post “Mike Kope at
Rejuvenation Startup Summit 2022” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/mike-...mit-2022
Recent interesting blog posts include:
“Attractive female students no longer earned higher grades when classes
moved online during COVID-19” by Raphael Ramos at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/attra...covid-19
“Beer Ingredient May Inhibit Clumping of Alzheimer’s Protein” by Nicholi
Avery at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/beer-...-protein
“Cancer vaccine could be ready for use by 2030, say BioNTech founders”
by Gemechu Taye at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/cance...founders
“Dead stars covered in space debris could reveal the origins of planets”
by Atanas Atanasov at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/dead-...-planets
“ESA SOLARIS: Wireless Power Beamed Down From Space” by Kelvin Dafiaghor
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/esa-s...om-space
“First Experimental Proof That Quantum Entanglement Is Real” by
Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/first...-is-real
“France’s Nuclear Reactors Malfunction as Energy Crisis Bites” by
Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/franc...is-bites
“Gamma rays from a dwarf galaxy solve an astronomical puzzle” by Saul
Morales Rodriguez at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/gamma...l-puzzle
“Google’s new AI can hear a snippet of song—and then keep on playing”
by Kelvin Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/googl...-playing
“Greg Bear, prize-winning sci-fi author and Comic-Con co-founder, dies
at 71” by Omuterema Akhahenda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/greg-...es-at-71
“Honeybee swarms generate more electricity per metre than a storm cloud”
by Liliana Alfair at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/honey...rm-cloud
“How scientists want to make you young again” by John Davies at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/how-s...ng-again
“Huge, unusually powerful explosion in space just detected by
scientists” by Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/huge-...ientists
“Is the Higgs boson the first step to a ‘Star Trek’ transporter?” by
Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/is-th...nsporter
“‘Killer Robots’ Are Already Here. They Just Don’t Look Like You Think”
by Saul Morales Rodriguez at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/kille...ou-think
“Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 1st flight after major software update”
by Alberto Lao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/mars-...e-update
“Mathematician Yitang Zhang Confirms Partial Solution to Riemann
Hypothesis” by Dan Kummer at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/mathe...pothesis
“NASA returns to the Moon: Orion Spacecraft completes lunar flyby” by
Alberto Lao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/nasa-...ar-flyby
“New cancer CRISPR treatment sees patients’ immune system attack tumors”
by Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/new-c...k-tumors
“New Metal Lungs Boosted Mammals’ Respiratory Efficiency” by Shubham
Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/new-m...ficiency
“New system retrofits diesel engines to run on 90% hydrogen” by Quinn
Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/new-s...hydrogen
“Nobel Prize: Quantum Entanglement Unveiled” by Saul Morales Rodriguez
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/nobel...unveiled
“Not Science Fiction: Methane-Eating ‘Borgs’ Have Been Assimilating
Earth’s Microbes” by Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/not-s...microbes
“Phase 3 clinical trial: Brain cancer vaccine shows promising results”
by Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/phase...-results
“Physicists predict the novel entangled states on programmable quantum
simulators” by Dan Breeden at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/physi...mulators
“Present And Future Exist Simultaneously, According To This New Theory”
by Dan Breeden at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/prese...w-theory
“Researchers Develop a CRISPR-Based Therapy That Penetrates Solid
Tumors” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/resea...d-tumors
“Researchers discover a way to extract more than 95% of uranium from
seawater” by Raphael Ramos at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/resea...seawater
“Roger Penrose: ‘Consciousness must be beyond computable physics’” by
Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/roger...-physics
“Scientists are struggling to figure out how space transforms our gut
microbiome” by Atanas Atanasov at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/scien...crobiome
“Scientists Just Witnessed One of the Most Powerful Cosmic Explosions
Ever” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/scien...ons-ever
“Scientists Reproduce Fascinating, Powerful Material Found in Meteorite”
by Josh Seeherman at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/scien...eteorite
“Severe depression eased by single dose of synthetic ‘magic mushroom’”
by Omuterema Akhahenda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/sever...on-eased
“Taiwan is turning unused metro stations into vertical farms” by Gemechu
Taye at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/taiwa...al-farms
“Teleportation Is Here, But It’s Not What You Think” by Jose Ruben
Rodriguez Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/telep...ou-think
“Tesla now can produce cars with just a few massive parts with MIT’s
innovative 3D-printed metal” by Gemechu Taye at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/tesla...ed-metal
“That Our Body Has A MEMORY OF YOUTH Has Been Proved | Dr David Sinclair
Interview Clips” by Montie Adkins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/that-...ew-clips
“This is how close we are to biological immortality” by Shubham Ghosh
Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/this-...ortality
“Three subtle signs could give aliens away to astronomers” by Atanas
Atanasov at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/three...ronomers
“Twitter Reveals ‘NFT Tweet Tiles’ in Order to ‘Impact’ the Social Media
Experience” by Raphael Ramos at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/twitt...perience
“What Underpins Exceptional Longevity?” by Dan Kummer at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/what-...ongevity
“Why We Need a Human Base on the Moon” by Dirk Schulze-Makuch at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/11/why-w...the-moon
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