Update! — Peg Kay will triple
all donations until October 10th!
We are launching our Summer Growth Fundraiser later than normal this year as
we’ve been swamped working to complete some big projects.
Our donation form is after the summary of our
activities.
Summary of current Lifeboat Foundation activities
1) The winner of our
Dream Project contest is
Teachers in Space. We funded three classroom
experiments that flew aboard the Perlan II stratospheric glider
which just set the world altitude record. The glider flew in
Minden, Nevada which was the location of our
headquarters!
The experiments flying with Perlan were from the Ashford School in
Connecticut (dual geiger counter radiation level testing), Cazenovia
School in New York (effects of radiation on plant seeds), and Oregon
Museum of Science and Industry (marshmallows at high altitude / low
pressure).
View details of these and of experiments flown in previous years.
Learn about our
Dream Project contest. Read our
official press release!
2) Lifeboat Foundation is now a Partner of the
Conrad Challenge. The Conrad
Challenge brings together a dynamic community of innovators and
entrepreneurs driving a collaborative movement to develop extraordinary
and viable solutions to benefit our world in one of five areas:
Aerospace & Aviation, Cyber-Technology & Security, Energy & Environment,
Health & Nutrition, and Smoke-Free World.
3) We are about to officially launch the paperback 2nd edition of
Visions of the Future including its
Kindle version. The 2nd edition of
Prospects for Human Survival
is now available as is the 4th edition of
The Human Race to the Future along with
its
Kindle version.
We wish to thank J. Daniel Batt for his
hard work in editing Visions of
the Future and creating the covers for all three books.
Kindle versions are available of all three books.
4) Additional books are
Preparing for a World that Doesn’t Exist — Yet: Framing a Second Enlightenment to Create Communities of the Future,
coauthored by our Rick Smyre;
Space Traffic Control (Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics
Series), authored by our
Stuart Eves;
Dance With The Desert,
authored by our Ian Hale;
Letters from the Dragon’s Lair;
authored by our Ian Hale;
The Insider’s Guide to Autism and
Aspergers,
authored by our Ian Hale; and
State of the Future version 19.1, coauthored by our
Jerome C. Glenn and
Elizabeth Florescu.
5) Watch
Why Existential Risks Matter & Decentralized Mitigation
Strategies by our
Allison Duettmann.
6) Want to listen to the latest updates from the Lifeboat Foundation on
your Amazon Alexa-enabled device? Just add the “Lifeboat Foundation —
Safeguarding Humanity” skill to your flash briefing through the Alexa
app. You’ll get updates from both the Latest News and Blog sections of
our website. Hear something interesting? Check the Alexa app for a card
containing a link.
To enable our flash briefing skill,
Go to Settings > Flash Briefing.
Click Get more Flash Briefing content.
Search for “Lifeboat Foundation”, then click on the
“Lifeboat Foundation — Safeguarding Humanity” skill.
Click Enable Skill to add it to your flash briefing.
Learn more at
https://lifeboat.com/ex/alexa.
7) The Lifeboat Foundation now has the
Platinum Seal of Transparency from
GuideStar, the world’s largest source of information on nonprofit
organizations.
8) Recent Lifeboat Foundation conference support:
The
2018 Undoing Aging Conference was held March 15–17 in Berlin.
This conference is focused on the cellular and molecular repair of
age-related damage as the basis of therapies to bring aging under full
medical control. It is a joint effort of the SENS Research Foundation
and the Forever Healthy Foundation. Our
Aubrey de Grey,
Vera Gorbunova, and
Jean Hébert spoke.
Age and Longevity in the 21st Century: Science, Policy, and Ethics was
held in New York City April 13–15. Our
Didier Coeurnelle,
Aubrey de Grey, and
Ana Lita spoke/participated.
The
34th Space Symposium was held April 16–19 in Colorado Springs,
Colorado USA. The Space Symposium is the premier global, commercial,
civil, military, and emergent space conference. Our
Masseh Tahiry,
Dylan Taylor,
and
Rick Tumlinson
spoke.
31st Clinical
Neuroscience and Neurogenetics Conference: Mobilizing Neurons to Rehabilitate
will be held August 13–14 in Dubai, UAE.
Our
Howard Federoff and
George Perry will be speaking.
AGI-18 will be held August 22–25 in Prague, Czech Republic.
This conference gathers an international group of leading academic and industry researchers involved
in scientific and engineering work aimed directly toward the goal of Artificial General Intelligence
(AGI).
Our
Joscha Bach,
Antonio Chella,
Haris Dindo,
Stan Franklin,
Ben Goertzel,
Bill Hibbard,
Marcus Hutter,
Matthew Iklé,
Kai-Uwe Kühnberger,
John Licato,
Alexey Potapov,
Rafal Rzepka,
Ricardo Sanz,
Leslie Smith,
Julian Togelius,
Viktoras Veitas,
Pei Wang, and
Byoung-Tak Zhang
will be speaking/participating.
RAADfest 2018 will be held September 20–23 in San Diego, California.
This is the largest event in the world where practical and cutting-edge methods to
reverse aging are presented for all interest levels, from beginner to expert.
Our
Michael Borkin,
José Cordeiro,
Greg Fahy,
Bill Faloon,
Aubrey de Grey,
Terry Grossman,
David Kekich,
Randal Koene,
Ray Kurzweil,
Jim Mellon,
Liz Parrish,
Marco Ruggiero,
Brad Thompson,
Neal Van De Ree,
Natasha Vita-More, and
Jean Weidmann
will be speaking/participating.
TransVision Madrid 2018 will be held October 19–21 in Madrid, Spain.
Our
Didier Coeurnelle,
José Luis Cordeiro,
Felipe Debasa,
Rodolfo Goya,
Aubrey de Grey,
João Pedro de Magalhães,
Ben Goertzel,
Michael Greve,
Charlie Kam,
David Pearce,
Ramón Risco Delgado,
Anders Sandberg,
Natasha Vita-More, and
Ibon Zugasti will
be speaking/participating.
9) The
2017 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to
Joseph N. Pelton in recognition
of his lifelong dedication to advance the science
of space safety and cosmic hazards prevention for the greater good of
humankind.
Furthermore, in addition to his academic writings he has tirelessly
pursued the education of the general public about the threats to
humanity that can come from solar storms, comets and asteroids, and
orbital debris.
10) The Lifeboat Foundation mourns
Lifeboat Foundation 2008 Guardian Award Winner
Stephen Hawking’s death with
a
special press release.
Stephen Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo’s death. He
has come to be thought of as the greatest mind in physics since Albert
Einstein. With similar interests — discovering the deepest workings of
the universe — he has been able to communicate arcane matters not just
to other physicists but to the general public.
As the
Lifeboat Foundation 2008 Guardian Award Winner, Stephen Hawking
showed that by using critical-thinking skills, we can learn about global
catastrophic risks and use this knowledge to save the human race from
extinction.
Read Hawking quotes!
Read Stephen Hawking —
An Appreciation by our Martin Rees.
11) Do you have a project that would benefit from the advice and input
of our advisory board members? If so, send an email with the subject
“Lifeboat Foundation Projects” to
[email protected]
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