Sonia Arrison and Martine Rothblatt
Alan Feuer with the New York Times is ready to do a full-length article
on the Lifeboat Foundation. He wants something to "hang a story on",
like a conference or gathering, where he can "watch us in action".
To get us started, Sonia Arrison and Martine Rothblatt's Terasem
Movement have launched our next conference fund with $4,500.
If you wish to help out, go to
https://lifeboat.com/ex/our.next.conference
Get our official Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/lifeboathq
Join our Twitter group on Buzzable at http://buzzable.com/lifeboathq
Read tweets about the Lifeboat Foundation at
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%22l...ation%22
Blog Team
Jacob Haqq-Misra joins our blog team with the post "'The Sustainability
Solution' to the Fermi Paradox" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=313
Sebastian McCalister joins our blog team with the post "Juan Enriquez:
Beyond the crisis, mindboggling science and the arrival of Homo
evolutis" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=235
Astrobiology/SETI Board
Al Harrison, who authored "After Contact: The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life", joins our Astrobiology/SETI Board which he also founded. Other members of this new board include David Brin, Seth Shostak, Rick N. Tumlinson, and Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe.
Video
Watch a TV segment about efforts by our Derek Lomas to promote $12 computers in third world countries at http://www.kusi.com/news/goodmorning/40447367.html
Audio
Listen to our Noel Sharkey discuss ethical issues in robotics at http://www.robotspodcast.com/podcast/20...t-1.html
ECAP09
The abstract deadline for ECAP09 (European Conference on Philosophy and Computing) has been extended to March 16, 2009. ECAP09 includes a track on Technological Singularity and Acceleration Studies. Learn more at http://lifeboat.com/CfPTechn.htm
Her Deepness
Sylvia Earle joins our Sustainability Board. Sylvia is called "Her
Deepness" by the New Yorker and the New York Times, "Living Legend" by
the Library of Congress, and "Hero for the Planet" by Time magazine. She
is an oceanographer, explorer, author, and lecturer with a deep
commitment to research through personal exploration.
Learn about Sylvia at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.sylvia.a.earle
Growing Membership
Here are some of the recent donations/pledges we have received since
the last newsletter:
Donald Maclean: $1,000,
Sonia Arrison: $500,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $170,
Michael Fleischmann: $150,
Anonymous: $140,
Michael Anissimov: $85,
Eric Bauswell: $85,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Michael Haislip: $85,
Jason Gaverick Matheny: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
C M Anderson: $25,
Adam Dobrin: $25,
Matt Duing: $25,
Rick Hubbard: $25,
Alan R. Light: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Adrian-Bodgan Morut (Adi): $25,
Peter Murray: $25,
Ronald Amos: $10,
Alexander Braitberg: $10,
Stephen Fleming: $10,
Christopher Dilkus: $10,
Thomas Dolphin: $10,
Sylvia Engdahl: $10,
George Garrett: $10,
Joseph P. Jackson III: $10,
Glenn A. Miller: $10,
John N. Philipps (Jack): $10,
Rok Resnik: $10,
and Kaj Sotala: $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.