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Lifeboat News #62

#62

Lifeboat News

This issue published on 10/01/07. Copyright 2007 Lifeboat Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

LinkedIn Group

We have launched a LinkedIn group for our Scientific Advisory Board members. The goal of this group is to help members:

  • Reach other members of the Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Boards.
     
  • Accelerate careers/business through referrals from Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Boards LinkedIn group members.
     
  • Know more than a name — view rich professional profiles from fellow Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Boards members.

Advisory Board members can join at http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/35656/2B322944A8E3
 
Update: Our LinkedIn group for our Scientific Advisory Board members passed 100 members within 24 hours of its launch. Special thanks to Philippe Van Nedervelde for conceiving, organizing, and launching this effort!

[email protected] Team

LF SAB member Philippe Van Nedervelde has created a Lifeboat Foundation team on [email protected] Our team has number 88682. Philippe invites any and all LFers to join our Lifeboat Foundation [email protected] team. Those owning a Playstation 3 know that they can use their PS3 for [email protected] Windows, Macintosh, and Linux users can also download the software as well at http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html
 
Donate the unused CPU cycles on your computer(s)/PS3 to help scientists understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases. Current [email protected] projects include the search for cures of: Alzheimer's Disease, Cancer, Huntington's Disease, Osteogenesis Imperfecta, and Parkinson's Disease. Your participation can help lead to a cure for these diseases, so donate computing cycles generously!
 
See our team page at http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/mai...um=88682
 
For any questions related to this, contact Philippe directly at [email protected].

Website Redesign

We now have a "Website Redesign" category at https://lifeboat.com/ex/donations for those who wish to help pay for an upgrade of our site.

Blog

Matt McGuirl joins our blog team with his first post at http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=95

Videos

Watch "PBS's Nanotechnology Takes Off" at http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#nanotechn...akes_off
 
Watch "The Immortalists: A Short Film" at http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#the_immortalists

Growing Membership

We have now reached 73 donors!
 
Read "Why I've Donated Over $1,000 to the Lifeboat Foundation" by Michael Anissimov at http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/micha...g/?p=559
 
Jason Gaverick Matheny officially joins as a LF 500 member, Matthew L. McGuirl and Mark A. Walker join as Executive Class members, Matt Browne, Joseph P. Jackson III, John N. Phillips (Jack), and Pennye Shaw join as Economy Class members.
 
Joseph P. Jackson III says "Today it is outrageous that the term existential risk is not even in the vocabulary of most policymakers, not to mention the public at large. The next decade is absolutely critical — either we get these issues recognized globally, from the highest levels of intergovernmental meetings, down to the lowest common denominator of popular culture — or — we abandon all hope of steering our future as it overcomes us."
 
Here are some of the recent donations/pledges we have received since the last newsletter:
 
Jason Gaverick Matheny: $285, Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $170, Matt Browne: $130, Michael Anissimov: $85, Michael Dickey: $85, Thoughtware.TV: $85, Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85, Kenneth P. Weiss: $85, Joseph P. Jackson III: $70, Nick Tarleton: $50, John N. Philipps (Jack): $40, James Blodgett: $25, Vincent A. Cate: $25, Adam Dobrin: $25, Rick Hubbard: $25, Matthew L. McGuirl: $25, Mark A. Walker: $25, James William Taylor: $25, Stephen Fleming: $20, Anonymous: $10, Sylvia Engdahl: $10, George Garrett: $10, Glenn A. Miller: $10, Jeremy Shepard: $10, Pennye Shaw: $10, Kaj Sotala: $10, Michael Vassar: $10, and Donna Beck: $1.
 
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.