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Apr 4, 2020
Theoretical physicist, author, and broadcaster,
Jim Al-Khalili,
joins our Physics Board.
Jim is Professor of Theoretical Physics, Public Engagement in Science, and a Distinguished Chair
at University of Surrey, where he has also held a personal chair in physics since 2005 alongside
a university chair in Public Engagement in Science. He is also
presenter of the long-running weekly BBC Radio 4 programme,
The Life Scientific.
Apr 4, 2020
One of our Lifeboat Foundation Advisory Board members has a solution to the shortage of face masks, and this solution is a design for others to copy and make themselves, for: (1) materials which work well at filtering 100 nm particles (the approximate size of COVID-19), and (2) sealing the mask against inward leakage. Many commonly used homemade materials do not filter viruses very well, so choosing good DIY homemade materials is important. However, if air bypasses a mask, then it needs to be sealed. Learn more!
Apr 1, 2020
Lorna Harries joins our Life Extension Board. She is Professor of Molecular Genetics at the College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter. Read Small molecule modulation of splicing factor expression is associated with rescue from cellular senescence.
Mar 23, 2020
Bill D’Zio joins our blog team with the post Final NASA Seats on Soyuz in 2020.
Mar 23, 2020
Alex M. Vikoulov, author of The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution, joins our Futurists Board.
Mar 23, 2020
Goffredo Giordano, Mentor at Singularity University, joins our Futurists Board.
Mar 22, 2020
Eddie Avil joins our Media & Arts Board. Eddie is the CEO of VR Storytellers, the Founder and Director at Immerge Knowledge Labs and Immersion Film Festival, and Founder of XROM Digital News Magazine and Change Transform India.
Mar 22, 2020
Award-winning Luís De Garrido joins our Sustainability Board. Luís teaches courses on the use of Advanced Creative Technologies for Sustainable, Self-Sufficient, and Zero Energy Architecture.
Mar 22, 2020
Christina Korp
joins our Space Settlement Board.
Christina is known as the Astronaut Wrangler. She is the former manager of Buzz Aldrin, but behind the
scenes she has also achieved her own “impossible” dreams. She now works with Apollo 16 Moon
Walker Charlie Duke and shuttle astronauts Nicole Stott and Greg Johnson on a non-exclusive basis.
Mar 22, 2020
M. Wade Holler joins our Space Settlement Board. Wade is the Creative Director at Explore Mars, Technical Director of The Humans to Mars Summit Series, and Art Director of The Humans to Mars Report Series.
Mar 22, 2020
Dinorah Delfin, Editor-in-Chief of the Immortalists Magazine, joins our Life Extension Board.
Mar 22, 2020
George Sowers joins our Space Settlement Board. Read Testimony to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of US House of Representatives.
Mar 22, 2020
Guillermina Benavides Rincón joins our Futurists Board. She is Research Professor and Director of the Master in Strategic Foresight at the School of Government and Public Transformation of the Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Mar 22, 2020
Foresight Researcher Joseph Voros joins our Futurists Board. Read his A Primer on Futures Studies, Foresight, and the Use of Scenarios.
