Lifeboat News #182

• Berkeley Stanford China Forum
• 100 Year Starship 2016–2017 Canopus Award
• Videos
• Books
• Articles
• Blog
• Growing Membership

Berkeley Stanford China Forum

The Berkeley Stanford China Forum will be held Oct 7–8 and will be focused on tech innovation and entrepreneurship. Confirmed speakers include Michael Seibel (CEO of Y Combinator), Patrick Lee (Co-Founder of Rotten Tomatoes), and Xue Ding (Co-Founder and COO of Ofo).
 
Learn more at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/berkeley-s...67916547

100 Year Starship 2016–2017 Canopus Award

Finalists for the 100 Year Starship 2016–17 Canopus Award include our Buzz Aldrin, James Blodgett, and Allen Steele in multiple categories.
 
We’ll have an update when we know the winners!

Videos

Watch “Cryonics: Fantasy or a Bridge to the Future?” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1xHpp4FwbU
 
Watch “Effective Altruism: How to Evaluate Hard-To-Measure Approaches” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvBC2GRey_U
 
Watch “NanoMind: AI-Powered Nano Design” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S124HrXiqMc

Books

Read the paperback version of “The Telomerase Revolution: The Enzyme That Holds the Key to Human Aging and Will Lead to Longer, Healthier Lives” at http://amzn.to/2fj9pRR. This book was authored by our Michael Fossel.

Articles

Read “The Business of Anti-Aging Science” at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar...17301713

Blog

Brady Chambers joins our blog team with the post “Researchers Discover Key to Brain Aging” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/resea...in-aging
 
Paul Gonçalves joins our blog team with the post “Changes in the Nucleolus are a Possible Aging Biomarker” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/chang...iomarker
 
Amberley Levine joins our blog team with the post “Elon Musk’s Neuralink Gets $27 Million to Merge Humans and Machines” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/elon-...machines
 
Patrick Tucker joins our blog team with the post “Can the US Military Re-Invent the Microchip for the AI Era?” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/can-t...e-ai-era
 
Recent interesting blog posts include:
 
“Amputee Makes History with APL’s Modular Prosthetic Limb” by Lily Graca at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/amput...tic-limb
 
“Bad News is Good News for Bitcoin Investors” by Philip Raymond at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/bad-n...nvestors
 
“China Upgrading Milky Way 2 Supercomputer to 95 Petaflops” by Roman Mednitzer at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/china...etaflops
 
“Chinese robot dentist is first to fit implants in patient’s mouth without any human involvement” by Derick Lee at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/chine...olvement
 
“DARPA funds Reaction Engines hypersonic precooler tests” by Klaus Baldauf at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/darpa...er-tests
 
“Dubai Stages First Public Test of Drone Taxis” by Dan Kummer at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/dubai...ne-taxis
 
“Dyson to make electric cars by 2020” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/dyson...-by-2020
 
“Fathers pass on four times as many new genetic mutations as mothers — study” by Aleksandar Vukovic at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/fathe...rs-study
 
“Forget ‘live fast, die young’ — do the opposite instead” by Steve Hill at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/forge...-instead
 
“Four Ways We Can ‘Swallow the Doctor’” by Brady Hartman at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/four-...e-doctor
 
“The Future the US Military is Constructing: a Giant, Armed Nervous System” by Patrick Tucker at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/the-f...s-system
 
“Gene Therapy and Drug Combination Reverses MS in Mice” by Steve Hill at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/gene-...-in-mice
 
“Genetically-modified wheat used to make coeliac-friendly bread” by Dan Kummer at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/genet...ly-bread
 
“German Party for Health Research: Together Against Age-related Diseases” by Elena Milova at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/germa...diseases
 
“Hospital Captures First Commercial Volta GPU Based DGX-1 Systems” by Roman Mednitzer at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/hospi...-systems
 
“How do you grow bone in a lab? Good vibrations” by Nancie Hunter at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/how-d...brations
 
“Humanity will be lost” by Zoltan Istvan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/human...-be-lost
 
“Investors should wake up to Japan’s robotic future” by Derick Lee at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/inves...c-future
 
“A Japanese doctor who studied longevity — and lived to 105 — reveals the key to living a long life” by Bryan Gatton at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/a-jap...ong-life
 
“Maker of graphics cards to supply Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent with chips that run AI five times faster” by Derick Lee at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/maker...s-faster
 
“Malicious code written into DNA infects the computer that reads it” by Klaus Baldauf at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/malic...reads-it
 
“Modifying Neutrophil Behavior for Stroke Recovery” by Steve Hill at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/modif...recovery
 
“Mum begged doc to ‘chip’ daughter in case ‘radical’ dad takes her to Syria” by Zoltan Istvan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/mum-b...to-syria
 
“New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains” by Aleksandar Vukovic at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/new-a...-strains
 
“New type of supercomputer could be based on ‘magic dust’ combination of light and matter” by Klaus Baldauf at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/new-t...d-matter
 
“Researchers Claim They Just Invented The ‘Ultimate’ Method for Quantum Computing” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/resea...omputing
 
“Robot farmers have successfully planted and harvested barley” by Dan Kummer at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/robot...d-barley
 
“Russia and US will cooperate to build moon’s first space station” by Brett Gallie II at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/russi...-station
 
“Scientists at the University of Southern California found a way to synchronise drones so they fly like a flock of birds” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/scien...of-birds
 
“Scientists create world’s first ‘molecular robot’ capable of building molecules” by Paul Gonçalves at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/scien...olecules
 
“Take a look inside Alibaba’s smart warehouse where robots do 70% of the work” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/take-...the-work
 
“Transhumanism: Could we live forever?” by Lily Graca at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/trans...bbc-news
 
“US military invests $900 million on next generation microchips for AI” by John Gallagher at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/us-mi...s-for-ai
 
“The Way We Get Power Is About to Change Forever” by Montie Adkins at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/the-w...-forever
 
“We Can Now Grow Human Bones From Stem Cells” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/we-ca...em-cells
 
“Why Are These People Eating Worms to Be Healthy? (part I)” by Brady Hartman at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/why-a...y-part-i
 
“Why Are These People Eating Worms to Be Healthy? (part II)” by Brady Hartman at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/why-a...-part-ii
 
“Will artificial intelligence mean the end of jobs?” by Alexandra Whittington at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/will-...-of-jobs