Special Report
Read Special Report “The Great Matrix of Big History” by Lifeboat
Foundation Advisory Board member William Grassie at
https://lifeboat.com/ex/the.great.matri....history.
Our European ancestors once understood the universe to be a Great Chain
of Being. All the entities of the world — animal, vegetable, mineral —
were hierarchically organized. At the bottom were metals, precious
metals, and precious stones. Then came plants and trees, followed by
wild animals and domesticated animals. Humans were also hierarchically
ordered from children to women to men and further into the different
ranks of commoners, nobility, princes, and kings.
The Great Chain of Being continued up into the celestial realm — moon,
stars, angels, and archangels — to the very top where God presides over
the entire creation. This scala naturae provided humans with a natural
order, which they also understood to be a natural human order that
structured their societies.
Biostasis 2020: the Annual Biostasis Conference Update
Biostasis 2020: The Annual Biostasis Conference will be held October
24–25, 2020 in cyberspace.
Our João Pedro de Magalhães, Greg Fahy, Emil Kendziorra, Francesca
Minerva, and Ramón Risco will be speaking. Learn more at
https://biostasis2020.com.
Blog
Raphael Ramos joins our blog team with the post “NVIDIA Uses AI to Slash
Bandwidth on Video Calls” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/nvidi...eo-calls
Recent interesting blog posts include:
“Air Force Says New Hypersonic Missile Will Hit Targets 1,000 Miles Away In Under 15 Minutes” by Raphael Ramos at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/air-f...-minutes
“A New Brain-Inspired Learning Method for AI Saves Memory and Energy” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/a-new...d-energy
“Ant Group and fintech come of age” by Derick Lee at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/ant-g...e-of-age
“The Cerebellum Isn’t What We Thought” by Paul M. Vittay at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/the-c...-thought
“China Conducts Test Of Massive Suicide Drone Swarm Launched From A Box On A Truck” by Raphael Ramos at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/china...-a-truck
“China Names 18 More Crewmembers for Its Upcoming Space Station” by Malak Trabelsi Loeb at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/china...-station
“Damaged muscles don’t just die, they regenerate themselves” by Kevin Huang at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/damag...emselves
“Dietary Fats and Cardiovascular Disease: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association” by Steven B. Harris at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/dieta...ociation
“Enzymatic DNA synthesis enters new phase” by Paul M. Vittay at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/enzym...ew-phase
“F-35 jet’s problematic lightning protection system set to receive fix” by Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/f-35-...eive-fix
“FAA cuts the red tape for commercial rocket launches (and landings, too)” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/faa-c...ings-too
“For The First Time, Physicists Have Achieved Superconductivity at Room Temperature” by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/for-t...perature
“Higher doses of vitamin D slowed progression of frailty in older mice, preclinical study shows” by Kevin Huang at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/highe...dy-shows
“Home-Made Covid Vaccine Appeared to Work, but Questions Remained” by Nicholi Avery at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/home-...remained
“Hubble sees swirls of forming stars” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/hubbl...ng-stars
“Inside the doomsday bunker for the super rich” by Derick Lee at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/insid...per-rich
“In situ structural analysis of SARS-CoV-2 spike reveals flexibility mediated by three hinges” by Omuterema Akhahenda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/in-si...mediated
“Mars Was so Close This Week That You Can See Its Surface From Your Backyard” by Raphael Ramos at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/mars-...backyard
“Microsoft partners with SpaceX to connect Azure cloud to Musk’s Starlink satellite internet” by Muhammad Furqan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/micro...internet
“Musk’s Next Invention Is A Rocket That Can Deliver Weapons In An Hour To Anyplace In The World” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/musks...he-world
“NASA advances plan to commercialize International Space Station” by Malak Trabelsi Loeb at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/nasa-...-station
“NASA is getting ready to land on an asteroid that may hold the building blocks of life” by Alberto Lao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/nasa-...-of-life
“NASA makes a significant investment in on-orbit spacecraft refueling” by Malak Trabelsi Loeb at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/nasa-...efueling
“New research could help millions who suffer from ‘ringing in the ears’” by Jeff Myers at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/new-r...the-ears
“New virtual reality software allows scientists to ‘walk’ inside cells” by Xavier Rosseel at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/new-v...de-cells
“Orionid meteor shower to peak soon, best times to see it” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/orion...o-see-it
“Physicists successfully carry out controlled transport of stored light” by Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/physi...ed-light
“Replacing functional groups with a gold electrode to control reactivity of a molecule” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/repla...molecule
“Research team discovers mechanism that restores cell function after genome damage” by Kevin Huang at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/resea...e-damage
“Scientists find neurochemicals have unexpectedly profound roles in the human brain” by Xavier Rosseel at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/scien...an-brain
“Scientists Have Discovered The Formation of a New Type Of Black Hole” by Alberto Lao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/scien...ack-hole
“SpaceX Starship wins $53M NASA Contract for Full Scale Orbital In Flight Refueling Test” by Montie Adkins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/space...ing-test
“Star cluster discovery stumps astronomers” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/star-...ronomers
“Statins may reduce cancer risk through mechanisms separate to cholesterol” by Paul M. Vittay at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/stati...lesterol
“Team reprograms CRISPR system in mice to eliminate tumor cells without affecting healthy cells” by Jeff Myers at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/team-...hy-cells
“Teenage ‘computer genius’ could become the first millennial saint” by Roger Dufur at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/teena...al-saint
“This Wind-Powered Super Sailboat Will Carry 7,000 Cars Across the Atlantic” by Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/this-...atlantic
“Tour of the Asteroid Bennu” by Alberto Lao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/tour-...id-bennu
“Ultrafast camera films 3D movies at 100 billion frames per second” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/ultra...r-second
“‘Universal law of touch’ could help make VR indistinguishable from reality” by Brent Ellman at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/unive...-reality
“VR objects you FEEL are a step closer thanks to new ‘law of touch’” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/vr-ob...of-touch
“Which Cooking Oils are Safe? (Which to AVOID)” by Steven B. Harris at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/10/which...to-avoid
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