2012 Guardian Award Winner
Our 2012 Guardian Award Winner is Jaan Tallinn. This award has been
given to Jaan Tallinn in recognition of his long commitment to fighting
existential risks. He has been a member of the Lifeboat Foundation
advisory board since 2007, a top 10 donor of Lifeboat Foundation since
2007, a top 10 donor of the Singularity Institute for Artificial
Intelligence since 2010, a speaker at the Singularity Summit since 2010,
and is now cofounder of The Cambridge Project for Existential Risk which
includes 2004 Guardian Award winner Sir Martin Rees.
Learn more at http://lifeboat.com/ex/guardian2012
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Our Kattesh Katti has been elected a fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Kattesh was elected for his
"distinguished contributions encompassing main group, transition metal
and nanoscale chemistry, particularly for ground-breaking discoveries
enabling application of chemical concepts for biomedical applications".
Learn more at http://medicine.missouri.edu/news/0175.php
Should We Live to 1,000?
Read "Should We Live to 1,000?" by our Peter Singer at http://www.project-syndicate.org/commen...r-singer
Real Portuguese
Thanks to our Mafalda Dias, we now have an about Lifeboat translation in Portuguese as spoken in Portugal. (Before we only had an about translation in Portuguese as spoken in Brazil.) Learn more at http://lifeboat.com/ex/about.portuguese.portugal
Software Wars
Learn about "Software Wars: A movie about how we can all have cars that drive us around" at http://www.indiegogo.com/SoftwareWars/x/1858237
End of the Year Fundraiser Update
Our End of the Year fundraiser is going well, we have already exceeded our $25,000 goal. Learn more at https://lifeboat.com/ex/end.of.the.year.fundraiser
American Express Membership Reward Points
You can now donate American Express membership reward points to the Lifeboat Foundation. Learn more at https://lifeboat.com/amex
Facebook Contest
Anyone who posts to our Facebook group at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/lifeboatfoundation by December 31, 2012
will be entered into a contest to win a free autographed DVD of "Orphans
of Apollo" (thanks to our Michael Potter). You can learn about the DVD
at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002HJ...02HJHGUO
The following people have already entered this contest: Gerard Bain,
Paul Battista, Joyce Bettencourt, Alex Michael Bonnici, Phil
Bowermaster, Mark Carney, Roger Christenson, Nikola Danaylov, Patrick
Das, Odd Edges, Eamon Everall, Sean Emery Flatt, Dariusz Gentek, Sirius
Hallenberg, Tristan Hambling, Kevin George Haskell, Lola Heavey, Sean
Henderson, Christian Holata, Syed Isa, Tom Kerwick, Cameron Keys,
Szabolcs Kósa, Wes Kretzschmar, Alexander Kruel, Stephen Lang, Ron
Langdon, John Lee, Jeremy Lichtman, Mike Lorrey, Alison B. Lowndes,
Jřnathan Lyons, Christopher MacArthur, Richard Mallah, Jack Foster
Mancilla, Chris Marti, Richard James Mcgirr, Thomas Munyon, Moana Nalu,
Michael Nuschke, David Oker, Bakari A. Pace, Edward Pandemonium, Ira
Pastor, Boris Petrovic, Charles F. Radley, Peter Rothman, Jessica
RRichman, Esther Rudolph, Luis R. Saraiva, Eric Schulke, Cibi Selvam,
Avinash Singh, Kim Solez, Kelly Starks, Sergio Tarrero, Reno J. Tibke,
Pierre Turcotte, Yul Tolbert, Tereza Ullinovich, Nicolas Valentino,
Jason Xu, Bruce Weaver, and Christine Williams.
Google+ Group
Our Jeremy Lichtman has launched our Google+ group at https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities...13385976
Videos
Watch "How the Entrepreneurial Mindset Can Change You: Henrik Scheel at TEDxSacramento" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjLhFdxnPJc
Articles
Read "Is 'Deep Learning' a Revolution in Artificial Intelligence?" by our Gary Marcus at http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/n...nce.html
Blog
Asim Roy joins our blog team with the post "Response to Plaut and
McClelland in the Phys.org story" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/12/respon...rg-story
This is related to the article "A theory of the brain: localist
representation is used widely in the brain" at
http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/Full...12.00551
and the comments in "Do brain cells need to be connected to have
meaning?" at http://m.phys.org/news/2012-12-brain-cells.html
Other interesting blog posts include:
"The Fabulous Spaceport Colorado (Part 1)" by Benjamin T. Solomon at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/12/the-fa...o-part-1
"Solving Complex Problems" by Farooq Khan at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/12/solvin...problems
Growing Membership
Recent donations/pledges we have received since our last newsletter:
Brian R. Cartmell: $10,180.90,
Peg Kay: $3,000,
Charles Churchill: $1,000,
Donald Maclean: $500,
Colleen Murphy: $200,
James Blodgett: $200,
John Grencer: $120,
Anonymous: $110,
Wilfrid Nixon: $100,
Catherine Asaro: $85,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Eva-Jane Lark: $85,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
Sam Gutterman: $60,
Eric B. Baum: $50,
Sarah A. Hoyt: $50,
Roy Mitsuoka: $50,
Calvin Tennant: $50,
Mark F. Alley: $40,
Joseph Pelton: $40,
J. Broadbent: $25,
James E. Gunn: $25,
Rick Hubbard: $25,
Just Loew: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Allen G. Taylor: $25,
Frank Sudia: $20,
James Bracken: $10,
Rebecca R. Cooper: $10,
Thomas Dolphin: $10,
Maria Entraigues: $10,
Charles Hawk: $10,
Alexander Macrae: $10,
Aaron Mayzes: $10,
Philip Morehead: $10,
Roland Schiefer: $10,
Benjamin T. Solomon: $10,
and Ryan Witt: $10.
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.
