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Lifeboat News #95

#95

Lifeboat News

This issue published on 06/01/10. Copyright 2010 Lifeboat Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

Safeguarding Life

The main goal of the Lifeboat Foundation is to safeguard humanity from problems in the future. Today we are offering the chance to save a life today. It is important that we work to protect both our present and our future.
 
One of our donors, Mulege Armstrong, has bone cancer. Learn how we are trying to save her at https://lifeboat.com/ex/bone.cancer

Blog

Woody Evans joins our blog team with the post "Gizmodo: Are Cameras the New Guns?" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2010/06/gizmod...new-guns
 
Bob Krone joins our blog team with the post "Space Education" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2010/06/space-education
 
Donald Maclean joins our blog team with the post "Transitions" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2010/06/transitions
 
Frank Sudia joins our blog team with the post "Friendly AI: What is it, and how can we foster it?" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2010/06/friend...at-is-it

Frontiers in Neuroengineering

Our Michele Giugliano and Henry Markram are organizing the 2010 Monte Verità Workshop: Frontiers in Neuroengineering in Ascona, Switzerland, September 5-9th, 2010.
 
Neuroengineering is a rapidly growing discipline that takes its lymph from the increasing cross-fertilization of many areas of technology and science. By means of neuroengineering, advances in diverse technologies and in cellular and molecular biology converge into powerful tools to improve our understanding and treatment of neural (dis)functions. Recently such a discipline has gone beyond the concept of a simple application of engineering principles to central nervous system (CNS) comprehension, leading to the emergence of one of the more exciting interdisciplinary research fields in modern neurosciences.
 
Learn more at http://www.neuroinf.org/meeting/meeting...eVerita/

A-500

Donald Maclean joins the A-500 where he supports the A-PRIZE for the price of a cup of coffee a day. The purpose of the A-PRIZE is to put development of artificial life forms in the open where it should be. Learn more at https://lifeboat.com/ex/a-500

Programs

Read our updated NanoShield report at http://lifeboat.com/ex/nano.shield

Special Reports

Read our updated "10 Futuristic Materials" by Michael Anissimov at http://lifeboat.com/ex/10.futuristic.materials

Videos

Watch the LittleDog Robot at http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#littledog_robot

Growing Membership

Recent donations/pledges we have received since the last newsletter:
 
Donald Maclean: $26,000, Fannie Mae: $500, Michael Anissimov: $85, Michael Dickey: $85, Jason Gaverick Matheny: $85, Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85, Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85, Kenneth P. Weiss: $85, Anonymous: $45, Frank C. Adamek: $25, Rick Hubbard: $25, Matthew L. McGuirl: $25, Midas McGuirl: $25, Joe Solomon: $25, Ronald Amos: $10, David Carter: $10, Rebecca R. Cooper: $10, Christopher Dilkus: $10, James Doerhing: $10, Thomas Dolphin: $10, Stephen Fleming: $10, George Garrett: $10, Charles Hawk: $10, Aaron Mayzes: $10, Linus Petersson: $10, John N. Philipps (Jack): $10, Lee Irwin Pringle: $10, PMP® Certification: $10, Rhonda Stevenson: $10, Alexis Armstrong: $5, Nicastro Piscopo - Orange County Attorneys: $5, and ReviewGist: $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.