Richard Branson
Richard Branson has won the 2011 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award.
The Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award is annually bestowed upon a
respected scientist or public figure who has warned of a future fraught
with dangers and encouraged measures to prevent them.
The 2011 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to Richard
Branson in recognition of his creation of Virgin Galactic, the $25
million Virgin Earth Challenge, the Virgin Green Fund, and of Virgin
Unite.
Read the press release at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/press.releases.r...d.winner
Stephen Wolfram
Read "How Stephen Wolfram is Preparing for the Singularity" at
http://www.fastcoexist.com/1678899/how-...gularity
This interesting article features the Lifeboat Foundation.
Neuromarketing World Forum
The Neuromarketing World Forum will be held February 2-3, 2012 in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Our Gemma Calvert will be speaking.
This forum is focused entirely on the emerging field of neuroscientific
research, consumer insights, and the application of the results within
business. The aim of this conference is to bring together top
neuroscientific research and commercial parties to discuss the key
challenges and opportunities of using neuromarketing tools to enhance
and add value to market research. The forum will be held in English.
Learn more at http://www.neuromarketingworldforum.com/en
FutureMed 2012
FutureMed 2012 will take place February 6-11, 2012. FutureMed team and
faculty include our Sonia Arrison, David Bolinsky, Aubrey de Grey, David
Ewing Duncan, Robin Farmanfarmaian, Neil Jacobstein, Ray Kurzweil, Tan
Le, Raymond McCauley, Carlos Olguin, Richard Satava, and Nick Soloway.
This informative and interactive 5 day program will be held at
Singularity University’s campus at NASA–Ames Research Park and will
include lectures, discussions, workshops and site visits, led by notable
Singularity University faculty and experts in the fields of medicine,
biotechnology, and innovation.
Learn more at http://futuremed2020.com/
Genetics of Aging and Longevity Conference
The 2nd International Conference on Genetics of Aging and Longevity will
be held April 22-25, 2012 in Moscow, Russia.
Our Andrzej Bartke, Holly Brown-Borg, Judith Campisi, Zoya Demidenko,
Vadim Fraifeld, Maria Konovalenko, Kyung-Jin Min, Michael Rose,
Nektarios Tavernarakis, Jan Vijg, and Alex Zhavoronkov are
participating.
Learn more at http://aging-genes2012.ru/en/
International Space Development Conference 2012
The International Space Development Conference 2012 will be held May
24-28, 2012 in Washington, D.C. The annual conference of the National
Space Society brings together NSS leaders and members with leading
managers, engineers, scientists, educators, and businessmen from
civilian, military, commercial, entrepreneurial, and grassroots advocacy
space sectors.
Our Amara Angelica, Sherry Bell, Peter Garretson, Al Globus, Mark
Hopkins, Stan Rosen, and Paul Werbos will be participating.
Learn more at http://isdc.nss.org/2012/
WorldFuture 2012
WorldFuture 2012 will be held in Toronto, July 27-29, 2012 at the
Sheraton Centre Toronto hotel. Our Peter Bishop, Joseph F. Coates, José
Luis Cordeiro, Tom Cowper, William Crossman, Jay E. Gary, Adam Gordon,
Linda Groff, William Halal, Jay Herson, Rodney Hill, John Jackson,
Naveen Jain, Peter Jones, Ted Kahn, Bud Levin, Alex Peake, Sheila Ronis,
Ziauddin Sardar, Heather Schlegel, Karl Schroeder, John Smart, Rick
Smyre, Dave Stein, Suzanne Stein, Patrick Tucker, and Verne Wheelwright
will be speaking.
Learn more at http://www.wfs.org/content/worldfuture-2012
Academy of Science of St. Louis
Our Kattesh Katti has been inducted into the Academy of Science of St. Louis. He joins an exclusive group of fewer than 200 scientists and
engineers who have attained Fellow status in the past 156 years.
Learn more at http://medicine.missouri.edu/news/0151.php
NanoShield Program
Web Geek Science has created a Romanian translation of our NanoShield program at http://webhostinggeeks.com/science/life...hield-ro
Clearing Space Debris With Lasers
Read "Clearing space debris with lasers" by our Claude Phipps at http://spie.org/x84761.xml?ArticleID=x84761
Blog
Some interesting blog posts include:
"Access to Space: It's as Cheap and Easy as it will get for a Long
Time" by Brandon Larson at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/01/access...ong-time
"Artifacts in the Solar System" by Jacob Haqq-Misra at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/01/artifa...r-system
"Is meaningful communication with aliens possible?" by Jared Daniel at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/01/is-mea...possible
"Old UNIX/IBM control systems: Potential time bombs in Industry" by Tom
Kerwick at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/01/old-un...industry
"Reparations Could Have a Future" by James Felton Smith at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/01/repara...a-future
Growing Membership
Recent donations/pledges we have received since the last newsletter:
Fannie Mae: $1,000,
Life Extension Foundation: $1,000,
Donald Maclean: $500,
Ralf J. Muller: $300,
James Blodgett: $250,
Santiago Bilinkis: $200,
Ed Cooper: $150,
Mark P. Fusco: $120,
William J. Cosgrove: $100,
Anonymous: $85,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Richard G. Hunter: $85,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
Linda M. Glenn: $75,
Catherine Asaro: $60,
Liming Dai: $50,
Brandon E. Larson: $50,
Tihamer "Tee" Toth-Fejel: $50,
Tom Kerwick: $35,
Johan Edström: $30,
Michael Breazeale: $25,
James E. Gunn: $25,
Luis Carlos Reyes Hernandez: $20,
Rick Hubbard: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Chuck Weir: $25,
Ronald Amos: $10,
James Bracken: $10,
Rebecca R. Cooper: $10,
Thomas Dolphin: $10,
Maria Entraigues: $10,
George Garrett: $10,
Charles Hawk: $10,
Alexander Macrae: $10,
Aaron Mayzes: $10,
Glenn A. Miller: $10,
Philip Morehead: $10,
Phil Nadeau: $10,
and Benjamin T. Solomon: $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.
