Richard Stallman
Our Richard Stallman will be speaking at New Delhi, India on January 5;
Kozhikode, India on January 11–12; Thiruvananthapuram, India on January
15–16; Bengaluru, India on January 18; Toronto, Canada on February 7,
and Bozeman, Montana on February 11. All these talks are gratis.
Learn more at https://www.fsf.org/events/rms-speeches.html
Southern Hemisphere Space Studies Program
The Southern Hemisphere Space Studies Program is being held January
14–February 15 at the Mawson Lakes Campus, University of South Australia
Adelaide, Australia. Our Alan Hale is teaching for Small Bodies in the
Solar System on January 31 and Stockport Observatory on February 9.
Learn more at http://www.isunet.edu/about/southern-he...-program
Space Exploration Education Conference 2019
The Space Exploration Education Conference 2019 will be held February
6–9 at Houston, Texas.
Learn more at https://sites.grenadine.co/sites/spacec...19/about
IBM Think 2019
IBM Think 2019 will be held February 12–15 in San Francisco, California. This is IBM’s flagship conference where over 30,000 C-level executives,
IT managers, architects, and practitioners gather to make the world of
business work smarter.
Learn more at https://www.ibm.com/events/think
Mitochondria: from Basic Biology to Mechanisms of Disease
Mitochondria: From Basic Biology to Mechanisms of Disease Conference
will be held February 27–March 2 in Nassau, Bahamas.
Our Matt Kaeberlein and Yousin Suh will be speaking. Learn more at
https://www.fusion-conferences.com/conf...ce78.php
Undoing Aging 2019 Update
Undoing Aging 2019 will be held March 28–30 in Berlin, Germany. Our
Julie K. Andersen, Dongsheng Cai, Judith Campisi, Aubrey de Grey,
Michael Greve, Ruth Itzhaki, Graham Pawelec, Mikhail S. Shchepinov, and
Manuel Serrano will be speaking/participating.
Undoing Aging 2019 is not only open to the scientific community but also
welcomes all interested members of the broader rejuvenation movement. The conference will feature a student poster session showing the work of
innovative undergraduate and graduate students in the field of damage
repair.
Learn more at https://www.undoing-aging.org
Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award
Our Kattesh V. Katti was awarded with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime
Achievement Award by Marquis Who’s Who.
Learn more at
https://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-...whos-who
Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award
The Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award is annually bestowed upon a
respected scientist or public figure who has warned of a future fraught
with dangers and encouraged measures to prevent them.
The 2018 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to Jeff Bezos
in recognition of his warnings about existential risks and his work on
space exploration which will eventually improve the survival chances of
humanity by having humanity being based in more than one location.
Learn more at https://lifeboat.com/ex/guardian2018
Blog
Paul Battista joins our blog team with the post “Can nanotechnology
rewire an injured spinal cord?” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/can-n...nal-cord
Adam Ford joins our blog team with the post “The Ghost in the Quantum
Turing Machine” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/the-g...-machine
David Houlding joins our blog team with the post “Blockchain: 6 Key
Ethical Considerations” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/block...erations
Caycee Dee Neely joins our blog team with the post “NASA’s
Technosignatures Report is Out. Every Way to Find Evidence of an
Intelligent Civilization” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/nasas...lization
James Christian Smith joins our blog team with the post “Engineers
create an inhalable form of messenger RNA” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/author/james-...an-smith
Recent interesting blog posts include:
“A Child’s Puzzle Helped Uncover How Magnets Really Work” by Genevieve
O’Hagan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/a-chi...lly-work
“A high-carb diet may explain why Okinawans live so long” by Lilia
Lens-Pechakova at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/a-hig...-so-long
“AI Helps Amputees Walk With a Robotic Knee” by James Christian Smith at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/ai-he...tic-knee
“A new tooth-mounted sensor will soon help you lose weight” by Shane
Hinshaw at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/a-new...e-weight
“The Cause of Alzheimer’s Could Be Coming From Inside Your Mouth, Study
Claims” by Jeffrey L. Lee at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/the-c...y-claims
“CRISPR Just Got More Powerful With an ‘On’ Switch” by Ian Hale at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/crisp...n-switch
“DIY CRISPR: Genetic Engineering at Home” by Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/diy-c...-at-home
“Europe wants to mine the moon by 2025: Plan could spark new space race”
by Klaus Baldauf at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/europ...ace-race
“First geoengineering experiment to dim the sun on track for 2019” by
Victoria Generao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/first...for-2019
“For Industrial Robots, Hacking Risks Are On the Rise” by Derick Lee at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/for-i...the-rise
“Genetic Mutations In Our Bodies Might Be Less Random Than We Thought,
Scientists Say” by Xavier Rosseel at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/genet...ists-say
“Google’s DeepMind AI Just Beat Two Pros At StarCraft II” by Sean Cusack
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/googl...craft-ii
“‘Immortality or Bust’ (Documentary): A Review” by B.J. Murphy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/immor...a-review
“Microsoft, MIT help self-driving cars learn from AI ‘blind spots’” by
Genevieve O’Hagan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/micro...nd-spots
“Near-infrared metasurface reflects only one direction of circularly
polarized light” by James Christian Smith at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/near-...ed-light
“New Hubble view is ‘deepest image of the universe from space’” by
Michael Lance at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/new-h...om-space
“New Paper: A ‘Mirror Image’ of Our Universe Existed Before The Big Bang”
by Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/new-p...big-bang
“Our Neural Code: A Pathway to AI Minds?” by Alex Vikoulov at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/our-n...ai-minds
“Planetary collision that created Moon also seeded Earth with
life-producing elements – study” by Michael Lance at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/plane...ts-study
“Quantum Computer: We’re Planning to Create One That Acts Like a Brain”
by Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/quant...-a-brain
“Say goodbye to Alexa and hello to gadgets listening to the voice inside
your head” by Marcos Than Esponda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/say-g...our-head
“Quantum Theory Bends The Limits of Physics, Showing Two-Way Signaling
May Be Possible” by Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/quant...possible
“Scientists Create Liquid Fuel That Can Store The Sun’s Energy For Up to
18 Years” by Victoria Generao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/scien...18-years
“Scientists observe a new form of strange matter” by Xavier Rosseel at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/scien...e-matter
“Setting Rules for the AI Race” by Michael Lance at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/setti...-ai-race
“World’s First Mammal CRISPR/Cas-9 Genetic Inheritance Control Achieved”
by Genevieve O’Hagan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/world...achieved
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