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Sep 27, 2020
Double Academy Award winner Mark Sagar joins our Media & Arts Board. Mark was involved with the creation of technology for the digital characters in blockbusters such as Avatar, King Kong, and Spider-Man 2.
Sep 27, 2020
José Rafael Castro Fuentes, author of Galactosylated N-Glycans in the Choroid Plexus: A Possible Aging-Related Molecular Therapeutic Strategy for Alzheimer Disease, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Sep 26, 2020
Eamon Everall joins our blog team with the post NASA gearing up for epic asteroid-sampling maneuver next month.
Sep 25, 2020
Enter The SRF Design-a-Mask Competition!
We’re inviting all our supporters to submit designs for an
official SRF mask. As well as being worn by SRF staff, these masks will
be available in limited supply to anyone who’d like to
support ending age-related disease and disability.
Sep 20, 2020
Read issue #217 of Lifeboat News!
Sep 19, 2020
Read Special Report
Loosening the Linkages Between Language and the Land
by Lifeboat Foundation Advisory Board members
Lawrence Baines and
Gul Nahar.
Like any living thing, languages evolve over time. This paper examines
the connections among sociocultural change, access to the Internet, and
the fluctuations of English as a global language. English has begun to
transcend geographical borders and sociocultural boundaries as its
status as a national language, official language, or unofficial language
grows.
Sep 19, 2020
Gul Nahar, coauthor of Loosening the Linkages Between Language and the Land with our Lawrence Baines, joins our Human Trajectories Board.
Sep 18, 2020
Biostasis 2020: The Annual Biostasis
Conference will be held October 24–25, 2020 in cyberspace.
Our
João Pedro de Magalhães,
Greg Fahy,
Emil Kendziorra, and
Ramón Risco will be speaking.
Learn more!
Sep 14, 2020
Jeremy Dylan Batterson joins our blog team with the post How cats see the world compared to humans.
Sep 13, 2020
Dirk Bruere joins our blog team with the post Elon Musk’s Neuralink — The Dark Side.
Sep 11, 2020
William E. Halal joins our blog team with the post Towards a Global Consciousness.
Sep 8, 2020
Satyajitsinh Gohil, who is Chief Technology Officer at Transdisciplinary Agora for Future Discussions (TAFFD’s), joins our Information Sciences Board.
Sep 6, 2020
Muhammad Furqan joins our blog team with the post SpaceX broke a record by launching 180 satellites in 1 month — accelerating Elon Musk’s project to blanket Earth in high-speed internet.
Sep 4, 2020
Professional Philosopher Stephen Azubuike Oguji joins our Philosophy Board.
Sep 3, 2020
Learn about #HalfMyDAF, a matching-grant competition endorsed by Herbie Hancock: DAF holders make a donation to the cause they value most, register their donation with the website, and thereby buy a “ticket” for the competition. Then, over the course of the competition, about 300 registered DAF donors will be randomly selected to have their donation doubled via a #HalfMyDAF matching grant of up to $25,000! Deadline is September 30, 2020.
