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Lifeboat News #228

#228

Lifeboat News

This issue published on 07/01/21. Copyright 2021 Lifeboat Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

The Costa Report

Listen to The Costa Report, an in-depth news podcast by our Rebecca D. Costa at https://www.thecostareport.com
 
The first episode is co-hosted with Washington DC advisor on space flight to the House, Senate, and White House, Paul Stimers, titled The Human Conquest of Space. You can also listen for free to some of the show at https://lifeboat.com/audio/the.human.co...pace.mp3
 
The Costa Report begins where 3-minute news reporting ends. It’s for listeners who abhor over-simplification, sound-bites, and headline-deep knowledge; who prefer hearing from qualified experts rather than agendized personalities; who long for respectful, informed, rational debate that examines all reasonable perspectives; who want to trust the media again.

Goodnight Moon Base

Among the many transformational initiatives that align with the Lifeboat Foundation mission to safeguard humanity, several of them aim to establish a viable civilization of humanity beyond Earth.
 
Establishing a passionate vision for this future in children is the goal of our Advisory Board member, Brett Hoffstadt. An established children’s book author and former aerospace engineer, he is in the process of publishing a forward-looking sequel to the popular classic Goodnight Moon. His book is called “Goodnight Moon Base”.
 
“Goodnight Moon Base” will embrace children’s love of human space exploration, transporting them onto a moon base for bedtime each night. By immersing them in this captivating world through vivid illustrations and enchanting rhymes, a future with this moon base will be so compelling and attractive that it will have to manifest itself into physical reality.
 
Learn more at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/20...oon-base

Let’s Lift the Earth!

Read Special Report “Let’s Lift the Earth!” at https://lifeboat.com/ex/lets.lift.the.earth by our David Brin.
 
Within one or two hundred million years, as our Sun gets hotter, the inner edge of our sun’s Continuously Habitable Goldilocks Zone (CHZ) will move past where our planet orbits, causing the Earth to overheat. Perhaps we should lift the Earth’s orbit to solve this.

Techcast/Cognis Strategic Forum Update

Lifeboat Foundation is sponsoring the TechCast/Cognis Strategic Forum which is a free virtual conference that brings together prominent thought leaders to collectively provide strategic solutions to the transformative changes of our time.
 
It was held virtually on June 30 and will also be held July 28, 1 pm PDT. Our Jessica Garretson, Jerry Glenn, Ted Gordon, Bill Halal, Steven Hausman, John Lewis, and Paul Saffo will be speaking.
 
An Executive Workshop held 30 minutes after the conference helps leaders, planners, and other professionals develop a more powerful strategic posture to master these challenges of a changing world.
 
Learn more at https://www.billhalal.com/blog/techcast...e-change

Blog

Johnathan Doetry joins our blog team with the post “Math Has a Fatal Flaw” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/math-...tal-flaw
 
Cherrie Ho joins our blog team with the post “Blood Plasma Dilution w/Saline-Albumin | Drs. Irina & Mike Conboy Interview Series Ep 2” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/blood...ies-ep-2
 
John Marlowe joins our blog team with the post “Sequencing 101: Whole Genome Sequencing for Rare Diseases” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/seque...diseases
 
Jimmy Quaresmini joins our blog team with the post “The quantum world of diamonds” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/the-q...diamonds
 
Recent interesting blog posts include:
 
“3D bioprinted heart provides new tool for surgeons” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/3d-bi...surgeons
 
“A Completely New Type of Camera Can Actually See Through The Human Body” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/a-com...man-body
 
“A New Gene Editing Tool Could Rival CRISPR, and Makes Millions of Edits at Once” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/a-new...-at-once
 
“A rogue killer drone ‘hunted down’ a human target without being instructed to, UN report says” by Sean Brazell at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/a-rog...ort-says
 
“A Single Injection Reverses Blindness in Patient with Rare Genetic Disorder – Another RNA Success” by Jason Blain at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/a-sin...-success
 
“‘Artificial Immortality’: Watch The First Trailer For Hot Docs Opener About AI &; Biotech” by Derick Lee at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/artif...-biotech
 
“Bioengineers Develop Algorithm to Compare Cells Across Species – With Striking Results” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/bioen...-results
 
“Carbon dioxide turned into oxygen on Mars” by Future Timeline at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/carbo...-on-mars
 
“China Releases Plans for Permanent Mars Base” by Alberto Lao at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/china...ars-base
 
“CRISPR Editing in Primates” by Kiran Manam at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/crisp...primates
 
“Elon Musk reveals he has Asperger’s syndrome 09.05.2021” by Nicholi Avery at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/elon-...#45;2021
 
“Energy-harvesting card treats 5G networks as wireless power grids” by Brent Ellman at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/03/energ...er-grids
 
“Germany, the birthplace of the automobile, just gave the green light to robotaxis” by Poopeh Morakkabati at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/germa...obotaxis
 
“Honeybee venom kills aggressive breast cancer cells” by Brent Ellman at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/honey...er-cells
 
“IBM’s first quantum computer outside of the US has just gone live” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/ibms-...one-live
 
“Is that a UFO? No, It’s a 600 Ton Capacity Russian Cargo Airship” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/is-th...-airship
 
“Israeli scientist claims to ‘reverse’ aging in blood cells” by Prem Vijaywargi at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/03/israe...od-cells
 
“Longevity pharmacology ‘promises to revolutionize medicine’” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/03/longe...medicine
 
“Musk: ‘We Need Universal Basic Income Because Robots Will Take All the Jobs’” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/musk-...the-jobs
 
“Mysteries of Epigenetics: There’s More to Genes Than DNA” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/myste...than-dna
 
“NASA’s Perseverance Rover Just Turned Martian CO2 Into Oxygen” by Alberto Lao at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/nasas...o-oxygen
 
“New atomically precise graphene nanoribbon heterojunction sensor developed” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/new-a...eveloped
 
“New Research” by Poopeh Morakkabati at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/new-research
 
“New Research Shocks Scientists: Human Emotion Physically Shapes Reality!” by Nare Khachatryan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/02/new-r...-reality
 
“New technology eliminates tumors, and could revolutionize cancer therapy” by Jason Blain at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/new-t...-therapy
 
“Our Brains Have More in Common With Testicles Than You Ever Wanted to Know” by Hiel Salming Gagarin at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/our-b...-to-know
 
“Physicists Have Broken The Speed of Light With Pulses Inside Hot Plasma” by Heather Blevins at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/physi...t-plasma
 
“Physicists working with Microsoft think the universe is a self-learning computer” by Chuck Brooks at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/physi...computer
 
“Reprogramming Old Cells Young Again” by Montie Adkins at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/repro...ng-again
 
“Researchers Could Achieve Artificial General Intelligence” by Dan Kummer at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/resea...lligence
 
“Researchers created a brain interface that can sing what a birds thinking” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/resea...thinking
 
“Researchers discover a completely new way of generating electricity!” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/resea...ctricity
 
“Researchers increase life expectancy in mice by an average of 30%” by Kevin Huang at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/resea...ge-of-30
 
“Scientists connect human brain to computer wirelessly for first time ever” by Jason Blain at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/scien...ime-ever
 
“Scientists create simple synthetic cell that grows and divides normally” by Dan Lovy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/03/scien...normally
 
“Scientists Discover Cause of Age-Related Mitochondrial Decay” by Joe Bennett at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/scien...al-decay
 
“Scientists Prove That Telepathic Communication Is Within Reach” by Mishari Al Hasawi at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/scien...in-reach
 
“This is the first house to be 3D printed from raw earth” by Brent Ellman at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/this-...aw-earth
 
“This Nuclear Reactor Just Made Fusion Viable by 2030. Seriously” by Montie Adkins at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/this-...eriously
 
“Tiny, wireless, injectable chips use ultrasound to monitor body processes” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/tiny-...rocesses
 
“Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel” by Dan Kummer at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/trial...h-enamel
 
“World’s 1st Unmanned Supersonic Fighter, Can Fly At Twice The Speed Of Sound” by Roger Dufur at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/03/world...of-sound

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