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Lifeboat News #245

#245

Lifeboat News

This issue published on 12/01/22. Copyright 2022 Lifeboat Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

AGU Fall Meeting

The AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting will be held December 12–16 in Chicago, Illinois and in cyberspace. This is the most influential event in the world dedicated to the advancement of Earth and space sciences.
 
Every year, the AGU Fall Meeting convenes over 25,000 attendees from 100+ countries to share research and network. Researchers, scientists, educators, students, policymakers, enthusiasts, journalists and communicators attend to better understand our planet and environment, and our role in preserving its future. It is a results-oriented gathering rooted in celebrating and advancing positive individual and collective outcomes.
 
Learn more at https://www.agu.org/Fall-Meeting/Pages/About.

New Worlds

New Worlds will be held October 28–29 in Austin, Texas. This is the best, most interesting, most informative, irreverent, challenging, inclusive, and unconventional space event on this world.
 
Our Tim Chrisman, Pete Garretson, Michelle Hanlon, Aaron Ray Hermes, Sagi Kfir, Irina Litchfield, Holly Melear, Mike Mantzke, Phil Metzger, Ayse Ören, Inara Tabir, Rick Tumlinson, Bart Womack, and Robert Zubrin will be speaking/performing.
 
Learn more at https://www.eventcreate.com/e/new-worlds.

Major Milestone

Our Kattesh V. Katti has achieved a major milestone in sustainable green approaches in immunotherapeutic drug design and was awarded patent “Mangiferin encapsulated gold nanoparticles, fabrication methods and cancer therapeutic methods” at https://patents.google.com/patent/US11426357B2.

Most Influential Person

Our Guido Putignano was named the most influential person in Healthcare & Bio Sciences under 25 in Italy by Università Bocconi and Nova.
 
Learn more at https://www.novatalent.com/111/italy/st...ist/2022.

Books

Read “How AI Can Democratize Healthcare: The Rise in Digital Care” by our Robin Farmanfarmaian and Michael Ferro at https://amzn.to/3dOHKcQ.
 
Our Dennis Chamberland has authored “Departing Earth Forever: Book One — Warning and Promise: The Manual for Today’s Colonists Preparing to Launch to Mars and our Moon” at https://amzn.to/3MCQOi2 and “Departing Earth Forever: Book Two — Alien Worlds: The Manual for Today’s Colonists Preparing to Launch to Mars and Our Moon” at https://amzn.to/3yLe0EV.
 
Read “Follow for Now, Volume 2: More Interviews with Friends and Heroes” by our Roy Christopher at https://amzn.to/3TJjKrr.
 
Featuring conversations with thinkers like Carla Nappi, Rita Raley, Dominic Pettman, Ian Bogost, Mark Dery, Douglas Rushkoff, and Dave Allen, and musicians like Tyler, The Creator, Matthew Shipp, Sean Price, Rammellzee, and Sadat X, as well as writers like Ytasha L. Womack, Chris Kraus, Pat Cadigan, Bob Stephenson, Simon Critchley, Simon Reynolds, Malcolm Gladwell, and William Gibson, this book is another critical cross-section of the now.
 
Read “The Jigsaw Assassin (Major Bhaajan series Book 4” by our Catherine Asaro at https://amzn.to/3TVfzIw.
 
Catherine plants herself firmly into that grand SF tradition of future history franchises favored by luminaries like Heinlein, Asimov, Herbert, Anderson, Dickson, Niven, Cherryh, and Baxter. She also contributed to our “Visions of the Future” at https://amzn.to/2N8X2X9.

Blog

Alan Carsey joins our blog team with the post “New simulations show how supermassive black holes form” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/new-s...les-form
 
Recent interesting blog posts include:
 
“A Breakthrough Cancer Treatment” by Nicholi Avery at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/09/a-bre...reatment
 
“A Micro Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor That Will Never Have A Meltdown Is In The Works” by 21st Century Tech Blog at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/a-mic...he-works
 
“A new concept for low-cost batteries” by Wise Technology at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/08/a-new...atteries
 
“A vaccine for Lyme disease is in its final clinical trial” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/08/a-vac...al-trial
 
“An American non-profit organization built the first 3D-printed school in Madagascar” by Gemechu Taye at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/08/an-am...dagascar
 
“Aubrey de Grey: scientist who says humans can live for 1,000 years” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/09/aubre...00-years
 
“Aubrey de Grey’s main short-term focus on his next endeavour (videoclip with S/T in Spanish)” by Andrés Grases at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/09/aubre...-spanish
 
“The Axolotl Can Regenerate Their Own Brains: New Research” by Nicholi Avery at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/09/the-a...research
 
“Billionaire Philanthropists Fund Anti Aging Research” by Ken Otwell at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/billi...research
 
“Blainjett’s hemi-rotor concept promises faster, more efficient VTOL performance” by Omuterema Akhahenda at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/blain...formance
 
“BREAKING: Three new unusual particles have been found by the Large Hadron Collider” by Dan Breeden at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/break...collider
 
“Combination of Rapamycin and Acarbose Extends Lifespan” by Montie Adkins at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/combi...lifespan
 
“Cornea made from pig collagen gives people who were blind 20/20 vision” by Raphael Ramos at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/08/corne...0-vision
 
“Finally! SpaceX can launch Starship into orbit as soon as September 1” by Tristan Hambling at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/08/final...tember-1
 
“First 3D-Printed High-Performance Nanostructured Alloy That’s Both Ultrastrong and Ductile” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/08/first...-ductile
 
“For the First, 3D Printed Materials can Sense their Movement” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/08/for-t...movement
 
“George Church on the state of aging research — present and future (videoclip)” by Andrés Grases at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/georg...ideoclip
 
“Human Brain Cells in a Dish Learn to Play Pong” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/human...lay-pong
 
“In a US first, California will pilot solar-panel canopies over canals” by Raphael Ramos at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/08/in-a-...r-canals
 
“The Kardashev Scale Type I, II, III, IV & V Civilization — Documentary” by Dan Breeden at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/08/the-k...umentary
 
“Longevity breakthrough as scientists discover how to reverse aging in skeletal muscle” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/09/longe...l-muscle
 
“Look! Astronomers find a hot ball of plasma circling the Milky Way’s massive black hole” by Atanas Atanasov at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/09/look-...ack-hole
 
“Math error: A new study overturns 100-year-old understanding of color perception” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/08/math-...rception
 
“NASA’s DART to Hit Asteroid” by Greg Allison at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/09/nasas...asteroid
 
“Particle physicists want to build the world’s first muon collider” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/08/parti...collider
 
“Physicists entangle more than a dozen photons efficiently” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/08/physi...iciently
 
“The ‘Pore Space’ Race Has Begun” by 21st Century Tech Blog at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/the-p...as-begun
 
“Rapid roll-out solar system to provide power in off-grid locations” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/08/rapid...ocations
 
“The Schwinger Effect: Scientists Finally Created Matter From Nothing Just by Using Electromagnetic Fields [Research Study]” by Liliana Alfair at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/09/the-s...ch-study
 
“Scientists Discover a Molecular Switch That Controls Life Expectancy” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/09/scien...pectancy
 
“Scientists Find Traces of Massive Ancient Rainforests in Antarctica” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/08/scien...tarctica
 
“Scientists measure half-life of element that’s longer than the age of the universe” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/08/scien...universe
 
“Scientists Move Closer to Unlocking the Secrets of the Immortal Jellyfish, and Possibly Human Aging” by Dan Kummer at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/09/scien...an-aging
 
“Scientists Show Transmission of Epigenetic Memory Across Multiple Generations” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/scien...erations
 
“Small Device Currently on Mars Is Generating as Much Oxygen as a Tree, Scientists Reveal” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/08/small...s-reveal
 
“‘Something is seriously wrong’: Room-temperature superconductivity study retracted” by Robin Indeededo at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/09/somet...etracted
 
“Spiders can fly hundreds of miles with the help of the electric fields on Earth” by Liliana Alfair at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/09/spide...on-earth
 
“This 17-Year-Old Designed a Motor That Could Potentially Transform the Electric Car Industry” by Gemechu Taye at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/08/this-...industry
 
“Want to protect your brain from aging? Learn another language” by Gemechu Taye at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/08/want-...language
 
“Web3, The Metaverse: Exploring A Fast, Sustainable, And Operationally Secure ‘QNTYM Railway’ For The Masses” by Chuck Brooks at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/web3-...e-masses
 
“Why dance is NOT a universal language | Fangfei Miao | TEDxUofM” by Tristan Hambling at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/08/why-d...tedxuofm
 
“Why Technologically Advanced Aliens Would Have to be Social Creatures” by Dirk Schulze-Makuch at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/10/why-t...reatures

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