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Lifeboat News #80

#80

Lifeboat News

This issue published on 03/01/09. Copyright 2009 Lifeboat Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

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

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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.