Google News
Our blog posts are now showing up in Google News as shown at http://news.google.com/news?q=site%3Ali...N&tab=wn
AIShield
Thanks to input from Joscha Bach, Matt Bamberger, Daniel Berleant, and Joshua Fox, our AIShield Program has been improved at http://lifeboat.com/ex/ai.shield
Lifeshield Bunkers
Brian Wang upgraded our LifeShield Bunkers program at http://lifeboat.com/ex/life.shield.bunkers
Reports
Read the updated version of "SHOUTING AT THE COSMOS...Or How SETI has Taken a Worrisome Turn Into Dangerous Territory" by David Brin at http://lifeboat.com/ex/shouting.at.the.cosmos
Videos
Watch "Blue Beauty" at http://lifeboat.com/ex/blue.beauty (Improved from our old PowerPoint version.)
Books
Arthur C. Clarke's final novel "The Last Theorem", coauthored with our
Frederik Pohl is now available at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?...ive=9325
"Year Million: Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge" with contributions
by our Amara D. Angelica, Catherine Asaro, Gregory Benford, Anne Corwin,
and Wil McCarthy is now available at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?...ive=9325
News Articles
Read "Should we be phoning E.T.?" at
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/...808.aspx
Read "The Doomsday Device is Ignored" at
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htecm/...714.aspx
NanoTX 08
Our Andrew Braswell, Teena James, Manu Sebastian Mannoor, and Balaji
"Baloo" Panchapakesan will be speaking at NanoTX USA, an international
conference and trade expo covering nanotechnology which will be held Oct
2-3, 2008 in Austin, Texas.
This event highlights advances in nanoscience and explains how
nanotechnology is being used today and how it will impact a broad range
of industries tomorrow: electronics, energy, aerospace, defense,
biomedicine, robotics, chemicals, and more.
Learn more at http://www.nanotx.biz/
BIOT 2008
Our Mark J. Clement and Sumeet Dua will be participating in the
Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium (BIOT 2008) which will be
held October 17-18, 2008 in Arlington, Texas.
This symposium brings together scientists, engineers, and scholars from
relevant fields with practitioners from industry in order to help each
group to understand progress made in the area as a whole.
Learn more at http://www.biotconf.org/
Scientific Advisory Board
Michael Shermer joins our Scientific Advisory Board. He is the Founding
Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the Executive Director of the Skeptics
Society, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, the host of the
Skeptics Distinguished Science Lecture Series at Caltech, and Adjunct
Professor of Economics at Claremont Graduate University.
Read his bio at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.michael.shermer
Growing Membership
We welcome donations towards getting our backup machine at
https://lifeboat.com/ex/time.for.a.bigger.machine
Here are some of the recent donations/pledges we have received since
the last newsletter:
Chris Haley: $285,
Humberto Castaneda: $200,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $170,
Michael Anissimov: $85,
Eric Bauswell: $85,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Jason Gaverick Matheny: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
C M Anderson: $25,
Vincent A. Cate: $25,
Adam Dobrin: $25,
Rick Hubbard: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Peter Murray: $25,
Robert Hunt Robinson: $25,
James William Taylor: $25,
Mark A. Walker: $25,
Anonymous: $20,
Alexander Braitberg: $10,
Stephen Fleming: $10,
Joshua Fox: $10,
Christopher Dilkus: $10,
Sylvia Engdahl: $10,
George Garrett: $10,
Joseph P. Jackson III: $10,
Sheridan Layman: $10,
Marcel Lossi: $10,
Glenn A. Miller: $10,
Sarah Jane Pell: $10,
John N. Philipps (Jack): $10,
Kaj Sotala: $10,
and Thoughtware.TV: $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.
