End of the Year Fundraiser
Donald Maclean has pledged $10,000 in matching funds for our End of the
Year Fundraiser. Get your donations matched dollar for dollar at
https://lifeboat.com/ex/end.of.the.year.fundraiser
This fundraiser has already received support from donors in Argentina,
Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, Spain, and the USA.
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, Eamon Everall, Sean Emery Flatt, Dariusz Gentek, Sirius Hallenberg,
Tristan Hambling, Kevin George Haskell, 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, Christopher MacArthur, Richard Mallah,
Jack Foster Mancilla, Chris Marti, Richard James Mcgirr, Thomas Munyon,
Moana Nalu, David Oker, Bakari A. Pace, Edward Pandemonium, Boris
Petrovic, Charles F. Radley, Peter Rothman, Jessica RRichman, Esther
Rudolph, Cibi Selvam, Avinash Singh, Kim Solez, Kelly Starks, Sergio
Tarrero, Reno J. Tibke, Pierre Turcotte, Yul Tolbert, Tereza Ullinovich,
Nicolas Valentino, Bruce Weaver, and Christine Williams.
Downloadable Memories
Read "Are downloadable memories just around the corner?" at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...ner.html which features our Ed Boyden.
Blog
William Kraemer joins our blog team with the post "Mapping the Mind to
Merge with Machines: Experimental Research Approaches to Brain Computer
Interfaces (BCIs)" at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.william.kraemer
Other interesting blog posts include:
"Atlantica Undersea Colony — Undersea Colonization and Research" by
Tom Kerwick at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/11/atlant...research
"FuturICT Vision for the Social Sciences, ICT & Complexity Science" by
Farooq Khan at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/10/futuri...-science
"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: A Galilean Base" by Tom Kerwick at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/11/standi...ean-base
Growing Membership
Recent donations/pledges we have received since our last newsletter:
Donald Maclean: $10,500,
Santiago Bilinkis: $200,
Anonymous: $150,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
Jane Hathaway: $50,
Luis Carlos Reyes Hernandez: $50,
Walter C. Putnam: $50,
Francisco Palao: $40,
J. Broadbent: $25,
Rick Hubbard: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Chuck Weir: $25,
Ille C. Gebeshuber: $22,
James Bracken: $10,
Rebecca R. Cooper: $10,
Thomas Dolphin: $10,
Charles Hawk: $10,
Laws: $10,
Alexander Macrae: $10,
Aaron Mayzes: $10,
Philip Morehead: $10,
Ocular Concepts: $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.
