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Lifeboat News #205

#205

Lifeboat News

This issue published on 08/01/19. Copyright 2019 Lifeboat Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

Free Breakfast

Lifeboat Foundation is sponsoring a breakfast on Saturday, October 5th, during RAADfest at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino (3000 Paradise Rd., Las Vegas, NV 89109), Conference Center Room 8, at 9:30am.
 
Free food will include:
 
Fresh strawberry yogurt & home-made granola
 
Breakfast tacos with pico de gallo salsa
 
Heart healthy muffins and fruit breads with apple butter
 
Assorted cereals with berries and fruit
 
Grilled garden vegetables and egg white frittata
 
A big bowl of berries and fruit
 
Drinks will include: Gourmet brewed coffee, herbal tea assortment, and fresh juices.
 
Enjoy stimulating conversations with Lifeboat members!
 
RSVP by sending an email with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation Breakfast” to events@lifeboat.com
 
Learn about RAADfest at http://raadfest.com

International Conference of Techno-Scientific Awareness

The International Conference of Techno-Scientific Awareness will be held by TAFFDs on October 7–11 at the University of Rwanda.
 
Our Christopher K. Haley, Ósìnàkáchì Ákùmà Kálù, Doris Ngozi Morah, Ira Pastor, Ilia Stambler, and Zoltan Istvan will be speaking/participating.
 
Learn more at https://conference2019.taffds.org

Mobile Support

We now have a mobile version of our site. Check out https://lifeboat.com with your phone and let us know if anything needs fixing.
 
Send your input to webmaster@lifeboat.com with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation Mobile”.

Big Chronology of Life on Earth

Our José Luis Cordeiro gives the President of Lifeboat Foundation an amazing wedding gift: the special report “Big Chronology of Life on Earth” at https://lifeboat.com/ex/big.chronology....on.earth

Blog

Roderick Reilly joins our blog team with the post “Nanoparticles could grant humans permanent night vision” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/08/nanop...t-vision
 
Recent interesting blog posts include:
 
“10 Unsolved Mysteries In The Universe” by Alberto Lao at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/10-un...universe
 
“A Huge Experiment Has ‘Weighed’ the Tiny Neutrino, a Particle That Passes Right Through Matter” by Genevieve O’Hagan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/a-hug...h-matter
 
“AI learns to defy the laws of physics to win at hide-and-seek” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/ai-le...and-seek
 
“Are We Alone? ‘Ad Astra’ Star Brad Pitt Talks Aliens, Science Fiction and More” by Derick Lee at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/are-w...and-more
 
“Artificial Intelligence and India” by Müslüm Yildiz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/artif...nd-india
 
“Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stats News: AI Is Actively Watching You In 75 Countries” by Roger Dufur at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/artif...ountries
 
“A Solar-Powered Hyperloop Train Could Soon Be a Reality” by Dan Kummer at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/a-sol...-reality
 
“Audi reveals autonomous SUV off-roader with its own army of drones” by Roger Dufur at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/audi-...f-drones
 
“The Brave New World of Sports” by Zoltan Istvan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/the-b...f-sports
 
“Bridge between quantum mechanics and general relativity still possible” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/bridg...possible
 
“By exploiting a feature of the immune system, researchers open the door for stem cell transplants to repair the brain” by Gerard Bain at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/by-ex...he-brain
 
“Can Bitcoin Transactions be Made Private?” by Philip Raymond at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/can-b...-private
 
“Can you wear that on Mars?” by Klaus Baldauf at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/can-y...-on-mars
 
“The Comet: Humanity’s Ongoing Journey as a Spacefaring Species” by B.J. Murphy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/the-c...-species
 
“Cryosurgery: Purpose, Procedure & Risks” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/scien...mon-cold
 
“The design, construction and characterization of new nanovibrational bioreactors for osteogenesis” by Gerard Bain at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/the-d...ogenesis
 
“Designing for a Post-Job Future: The Impact of AI on Architecture” by Alexandra Whittington at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/desig...itecture
 
“Doug Ethell at Ending Age-Related Diseases 2019” by Nicola Bagalà at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/doug-...ses-2019
 
“Elon Musk Gives Sneak Peek at SpaceX Starship Prototype’s Construction” by Genevieve O’Hagan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/elon-...truction
 
“Engineered Bioweapons Are the New Security Threat, Here’s What You Need to Know” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/engin...-to-know
 
“EV battery cooling technology to cut range anxiety” by Omuterema Akhahenda at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/ev-ba...-anxiety
 
“The future of food: what we’ll eat in 2028” by Genevieve O’Hagan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/the-f...-in-2028
 
“Gene-Hacking Mosquitoes to Be Infertile Backfired Spectacularly” by Omuterema Akhahenda at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/gene-...acularly
 
“Greg Fahy at Ending Age-Related Diseases 2019” by Steve Hill at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/greg-...ses-2019
 
“The Heterogeneity of Senescent Cells” by Steve Hill at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/the-h...nt-cells
 
“How fast is the universe expanding? The mystery endures” by Michael Lance at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/how-f...-endures
 
“How to Feed a Mars Colony of 1 Million People” by Klaus Baldauf at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/how-t...n-people
 
“Interest in life extension might seem to be a fairly recent phenomenon, but it is almost as old as humanity itself” by Nicola Bagalà at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/inter...y-itself
 
“Is there life on Saturn’s Moon?” by Alberto Lao at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/is-th...rns-moon
 
“Kepler Exoplanet Likely Has More Water Than Earth, Says Astronomer” by Bruce Dorminey at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/keple...tronomer
 
“Lunar Polar Mining Technology” by Klaus Baldauf at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/lunar...chnology
 
“Ministry of Defence is developing ‘military Alexa’ to give soldiers crucial information using artificial intelligence” by Amnon H. Eden at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/minis...ce”
 
“MIT Breakthrough: New Aerogel Creates Passive Heat From Sunlight” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/mit-b...sunlight
 
“Mysterious magnetic pulses discovered on Mars” by Genevieve O’Hagan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/myste...-on-mars
 
“NASA Funds New Lunar CubeSat Orbiter Mission” by Bruce Dorminey at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/nasa-...-mission
 
“Navigating Water Shortages with Decentralized Water Control System and Irrigation” by Omuterema Akhahenda at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/navig...rigation
 
“Physicists discover topological behavior of electrons in 3D magnetic material” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/physi...material
 
“Pulsating gamma rays from neutron star rotating 707 times a second” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/pulsa...a-second
 
“The Race to Own One Bitcoin” by Philip Raymond at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/the-r...-bitcoin
 
“Researchers build a quantum dot energy harvester” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/resea...arvester
 
“Scientists Develop Gel That Can Regrow Tooth Enamel” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/scien...h-enamel
 
“Something Is Killing Galaxies in Extreme Regions of the Universe” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/somet...universe
 
“These AI-generated people are coming to kill stock photography” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/these...tography
 
“This Ingenious System Brings Water to the Chinese Desert” by Fyodor Rouge at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/this-...e-desert
 
“Transplanted Brain Stem Cells Survive without Anti-Rejection Drugs in Mice” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/trans...-in-mice
 
“Uncovering how the body ages is leading to drugs to reverse it” by Dan Kummer at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/uncov...verse-it
 
“Was SHA-256 cracked? Don’t buy into retraction!” by Philip Raymond at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/was-s...traction
 
“What came before the Big Bang? A trip through cosmology, multiverses, fifth dimensions and a big bounce” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/what-...g-bounce
 
“World’s First 3D Printed Diamond Composite Was Created” by Omuterema Akhahenda at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/world...-created
 
“Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality” by Derick Lee at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/your-...nil-seth

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