Maximon Longevity Prize Update
Enter to win the Maximon Longevity Prize which is valued at over 50,000
US dollars. Judges include our Evelyne Yehudit Bischof, João Pedro de
Magalhães, Collin Ewald, Brian Kennedy, and Ashish Rajput.
The Maximon Longevity Prize for Translational Research awards
outstanding breakthrough research in the field of longevity that can be
translated for clinical or non-clinical applications and has the
potential to substantially increase healthspan or lifespan of humans.
Learn more at https://www.maximon.com/longevityprize
Aging Research & Drug Discovery 2022
Aging Research & Drug Discovery 2022 will be held August 29–September 2
in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Our Nir Barzilai, Evelyne Bischof, Judith Campisi, João Pedro de
Magalhães, Kristen Fortney, Vadim Gladyshev, Vera Gorbunova, Steve
Horvath, Matt Kaeberlein, Brian Kennedy, Gordan Lauc, Morgan Levine,
Andrea B. Maier, Morten Scheibye-Knudsen, and Alex Zhavoronkov will be
speaking/particpating.
Learn more at http://agingpharma.org
DEF CON 30
DEF CON 30 will be held August 11–14 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Our Richard Thieme will be speaking.
Learn more at https://defcon.org/html/defcon-30/dc-30-index.html
Ending Age-Related Diseases 2022
Ending Age-Related Diseases 2022 will be held August 11–14 in
cyberspace.
Our Sebastian A. Brunemeier, Keith Comito, Greg Fahy, Michael Geer,
Vadim Gladyshev, Steve Hill, Steve Horvath, Brian Kennedy, Gordan Lauc,
Michael Lustgarten, Tim Maupin, Matthew O’Connor, Kevin Perrott, Mike P. Sinn, and Hannah Went will be speaking/participating.
Learn more at https://www.lifespan.io/ending-age-rela...ses-2022
The Future Forum
The Future Forum will be held August 4–7 in San Francisco, USA. Our
Allison Duettmann and Anders Sandberg will be speaking.
250 bright individuals will gather in a welcoming South San Francisco
mansion, mingle with many of the voices thinking and working on
improving the future of humanity, and we will co-create one-on-one
conversations, fireside chats, workshops, and more.
Learn more at https://futureforum.foundation
The Interpretable Natural Language Processing (Inlp) AGI-22 Workshop
The Interpretable Natural Language Processing (INLP) AGI-22 Workshop
will be held August 19–22 in Seattle, Washington and in cyberspace.
Our Anton Kolonin and Linas Vepstas will be speaking/participating.
Learn more at https://aigents.github.io/inlp/2022
Liberty International World Conference 2022
The Liberty International World Conference 2022 will be held August
11–15 in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Our José Luis Cordeiro will be speaking/participating.
Learn more at https://liberty-intl.org/liwc
NewSpace Conference 2022
NewSpace Conference 2022 will be held August 24–26 in Seattle, Washington.
Our Rick Tumlinson will be speaking.
Learn more at https://newspace.spacefrontier.org/newspace
TAFFD’s Gen4IR Summit Update IV
TAFFD’s Gen4IR Summit will be held August 16–17 in Sun City, South
Africa.
Our Kevin Allen, Bill Andrews, Ùgò Chúkwú, José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de
Grey, Edward Hudgins, Al Karaki, Pius Adewale Owolawi, Kgomotsego Brenda
Ramokopelwa, Sarita Sharma, Rohit Talwar, and Natasha Vita-More will be
speaking/participating.
This summit is devoted to accelerating our Singularity future for
development in Africa.
Learn more at https://gen4ir.org
Books
Read “The End of Astronauts” coauthored by our Martin Rees at
https://amzn.to/3aCfF74
Read “Falling Up: How to get to Proxima Centauri” by our Mike McCulloch
at https://amzn.to/3uLi8D3
Read “Future Bright, Future Grimm: Transhumanist Tales for Mother
Nature’s Offspring” by our D.J. MacLennan at
https://amzn.to/3aBhL7g
Read “If It’s Smart, It’s Vulnerable” by our Mikko Hyppönen at
https://amzn.to/3PqZN6f
Read “Science and the Skeptic: Discerning Fact from Fiction” by our Marc
Zimmer at https://amzn.to/3ICs8V2
Plays
Read the sci-fi, sci-fact play “Coffeehouse Magik” by our Coni Ciongoli-Koepfinger at https://nextstagepress.net/coffeehouse-magik
Blog
Tristan Hambling joins our blog team with the post “The true size and
power of James Webb Space Telescope’s new guide camera(FGS) deep field
image. [8k]” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/the-t...image-8k
Recent interesting blog posts include:
“A novel 3D printing technique produces objects out of resin in mere
seconds” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/a-nov...-seconds
“A Recent Discovery Could Unravel the Mystery of Martian Methane” by
Dirk Schulze-Makuch at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/a-rec...-methane
“After months spent in space, it is very hard for an astronaut to walk
on earth” by Muhammad Furqan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/after...on-earth
“AI Inventing Its Own Culture, Passing It On to Humans, Sociologists
Find” by Dan Kummer at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/ai-in...sts-find
“Algae ponds could sequester gigatons of carbon” by Future Timeline at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/algae...f-carbon
“Antarctic bacteria live on air and make their own water using hydrogen
as fuel” by Raphael Ramos at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/antar...-as-fuel
“Bottling the sun” by Claudio Soprano at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/bottling-the-sun
“China launches an autonomous mothership full of autonomous drones” by
Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/china...s-drones
“Death-Bringing ‘Brain Tsunamis’ Have Been Observed in Humans” by Kelvin
Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/death...n-humans
“Disney build some of the most incredible robots” by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/disne...9f%a4%af
“ETH Zürich’s ANYmal has made major strides since it first burst onto
the scene” by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/eth-z...he-scene
“Google AI Introduces Minerva: A Natural Language Processing (NLP) Model
That Solves Mathematical Questions” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/googl...uestions
“Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO of SpaceX” by Chris J. Kent at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/gwynn...f-spacex
“Hackers steal WhatsApp accounts using call forwarding trick” by Saúl
Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/hacke...ng-trick
“How Logs of Fruit Pulp Replace Firewood and Charcoal | World Wide
Waste” by Raphael Ramos at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/how-l...de-waste
“How to Make the Universe Think for Us” by Dan Breeden at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/how-t...k-for-us
“The Human Heart Can Repair Itself, And We Now Know Which Cells Are
Crucial For It” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/the-h...l-for-it
“Krafft Ehricke: ‘Lunar Industrialization & Settlement—Birth of
Polyglobal Civilization’” by Adriano Autino at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/kraff...lization
“Liz Parrish interviewed by María Zabay for the Spanish newspaper ‘Ok
Diario’ (English & Spanish)” by Andrés Grases at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/liz-p...-spanish
“‘Look 25 Even At 40’ Scientists Now Make Old Skin Cells Younger!” by
Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/look-...-younger
“Making stem cells with chemicals” by Montie Adkins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/makin...hemicals
“Musical molecules: A new language for chemistry” by Jose Ruben
Rodriguez Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/music...hemistry
“NASA Says Space Debris Will Definitely Slam Into the James Webb Space
Telescope” by Alberto Lao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/nasa-...elescope
“New messages to aliens bring up two crucial ethical questions” by
Atanas Atanasov at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/new-m...uestions
“New record solar cell efficiency” by Future Timeline at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/new-r...ficiency
“New technique produces hydrogen from banana peels within a few
milliseconds” by Raphael Ramos at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/new-t...iseconds
“The newest meatless meat is made from air” by Omuterema Akhahenda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/the-n...from-air
“Paper-based semiconductor aids the drive for sustainable electronics”
by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/paper...ctronics
“The Perseverance Rover of NASA captured a flying object on Mars” by
Melvin Louis at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/the-p...-on-mars
“Planning a Career Path in the Face of Disruptive 21st Century Change”
by Len Rosen at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/plann...y-change
“Researchers teleport quantum information across rudimentary quantum
network” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/resea...-network
“Scientists announce a breakthrough in determining life’s origin on
Earth—and maybe Mars” by Nicholi Avery at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/06/scien...ybe-mars
“Scientists Can Now Fully 3D-Print Wood In A Lab — Without Cutting Any
Trees” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/scien...ny-trees
“Scientists Have Sequenced the DNA of a 2000-Year-Old Human From
Pompeii” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/scien...-pompeii
“Scientists successfully grow plants in Moon soil” by Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/scien...oon-soil
“Scientists turn tomatoes into a rich source for vitamin D” by Shane
Hinshaw at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/scien...itamin-d
“Sea corals are source of sought-after ‘anti-cancer’ compound” by Josh
Seeherman at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/sea-c...compound
“SpaceX Starship explosion: Elon Musk outlines next step before orbital
flight” by Tristan Hambling at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/space...l-flight
“The Tesseract: between mediated consciousness and embodiment” by Brent
Ellman at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/the-t...bodiment
“This robot can harvest tomatoes without damaging them” by Shailesh
Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/this-...ing-them
“Were Humans the First and Only Intelligent Species on Earth?” by Dirk
Schulze-Makuch at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/were-...on-earth
“ZeroAvia and Shell to build mobile refuelers for hydrogen aircraft in
California” by Jamal Simpson at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/05/zeroa...lifornia
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