Lifeboat News #275

• ISDC 2025 Update
• Unicorn Summit Update
• Books
• Blog
• Growing Membership

ISDC 2025 Update

ISDC 2025, the year’s most important space conference, will be held June 19–22 in Orlando, Florida.
 
Our Gary Barnhard, Sherry E. Bell, Joe Haldeman, Jim Plaxco, Martine Rothblatt, Ken Ruffin, Peter A. Swan, and Nancy C. Wolfson will be speaking.
 
Learn more at https://sciforum.net/event/IOCPh2025

Unicorn Summit Update

The Unicorn Summit will be held June 29–July 2 in Lisbon, Portugal and in Cyberspace. This event has gathered the best startups, investors, news media, and world speakers from all over the world.
 
Lifeboat members can get a 30% discount with the code UNICORN30. Also, if you send a message to [email protected] with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation Unicorn” we may be able to give you a free ticket!
 
Our Bill H. Andrews, Niklas Anzinger, Eddie Avil, Carlos R. B. Azevedo, Ben Best, Jen Blank, David Bolinsky, Tudor Boloni, I. Michael Borkin, Sebastian A. Brunemeier, Nigel M. de S. Cameron, André Caminoa, Nancy Conrad, Harish Consul, José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Brian M. Delaney, Dinorah Delfin, Gregory M. Fahy, William Faloon, Robin Farmanfarmaian, Peter Fedichev, John D. Furber, Steven A. Garan, Giorgio Gaviraghi, Anastasiya K. Giarletta, Jerome C. Glenn, Ben Goertzel, Gilad Gomé, Andrés Grases Briceño, Andrew Hessel, Naveen Jain, Sonika Kapil, Kent Kemmish, Maxim Kholin, Ray Kurzweil, Gordan Lauc, Dylan V. Livingston, Andrea B. Maier, Nuno R. B. Martins, Stuart Maudsley, Ines O’Donovan, Miguel Pais-Vieira, Liz Parrish, Alexander Paziotopoulos, Giulio Prisco, Jovan David Rebolledo-Mendez, Denisa Rensen, Martine Rothblatt, Shovon S. Saha, Anders Sandberg, Vittorio Sebastiano, Pedro Lopez Sela, Seth Shostak, John M. Smart, Yael Sorek-Benvenisti, Irina Spekman, Paul A. Spiegel, Rohit Talwar, Paola Telfer, Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk, Natasha Vita-More, Peter Voss, Alex D. Wissner-Gross, Anna Yusim, Sajad Zalzala, Kristina Zdantsevich, and Alex Zhavoronkov will be speaking.
 
Learn more at https://unicornsummit.net

Books

Read “Cell and Gene Therapies for Neurologic Diseases”, coedited by our Howard J. Federoff at https://amzn.to/4m9J9sH
 
Read “Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness, Third Edition” by our Newton Lee at https://amzn.to/4dcaJl7
 
Read “Doppelgänger” by our Chip Walter at https://amzn.to/42Sd7tP
 
What if a murdered man could bring his murderers to justice? In 2024 Elon Musk announced the first computer-brain implant. In the year 2068 the first mind transplant becomes possible. Immortality is a reality. Except for Morgan Adams, its not that simple.
 
Adams is a prodigy, the chief scientist and cofounder of the world’s wealthiest corporation. Tomorrow he’ll reveal his most ambitious undertaking: a secret project called Doppelgänger that will enable him to download a human mind into an identical cyborg body. But that morning he awakens to a shocking reality — he is standing over his own lifeless body, tortured and broken on a cold laboratory floor.
 
Morgan is the disbelieving beta version of his own unfinished creation, a Doppelgänger. There’s just one problem. The source code has been stolen and Morgan’s consciousness is degrading — fast! He has 72 hours to find his own murderer, recover and repair the source code, and fight a conspiracy so vast it threatens the entire human race.
 
Doppelgänger is a riveting futuristic thriller that imagines a full-blooded parallel world where twists and turns make reality so fractured it is nearly impossible to know what is true and what isn’t. It explores the clash of human passion, evil, love, trust and time. Even after turning the last page you’ll wonder what is real and what isn’t.
 
Read “Exosome Communication: Advances in Research and Therapeutics for Health and Disease”, coauthored by our William C. Cho at https://amzn.to/3GOGp40
 
Read “H2LiftShips – Beyond Luna: A Hard Science Sci Fi Space Opera Series” by our Bob Freeman at https://amzn.to/437pJMy
 
Read “Human: A collection of poetry reflecting on the good, the bad, and the curious parts of humanity” by our Ruben Alexander at https://amzn.to/3YFXW4r
 
Read “Humanizing Robots: How making humanoids can make us more human” by our David Hanson at https://amzn.to/3RYy7ZD
 
Read “Program Or Be Programmed: Eleven Commands for the AI Future” by our Douglas Rushkoff at https://amzn.to/4k0CmQA
 
Read “Quantised Accelerations: From Anomalies to New Physics” by our Michael E. McCulloch at https://amzn.to/3Z2SlWf
 
Read “The State: Theory and Praxis”, authored by our Kevin A. Carson at https://amzn.to/4d81JgM

Blog

Better Than Yesterday: Biohacking & Healthy Aging joins our blog team with the post “The Longevity Side of Sunlight: What Science Really Says” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/%e2%9...lly-says
 
Nikola Danaylov joins our blog team with the post “Will Technology Replace Biology? [Redux]” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/will-...gy-redux
 
Recent interesting blog posts include:
 
“A search engine could become the first true artificial intelligence” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/a-sea...lligence
 
“Blocking One Key Enzyme May Help Reverse The Effects of Alzheimer’s” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/block...zheimers
 
“The case for Mars terraforming research” by Logan Thrasher Collins at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/the-c...research
 
“Challenging Decades of Neuroscience: Brain Cells Are More Plastic Than Previously Thought” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/chall...-thought
 
“Cosmic Rule-of-Thumb” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/cosmi...of-thumb
 
“Cyclin-Dependent Kinases Explained | Mastering Cell Cycle Control” by Myra Sehar at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/cycli...-control
 
“Decoding Animal Minds Could Reveal the Purpose of Consciousness, Scientists Say” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/decod...ists-say
 
“Do We Have a Moral Obligation To AI Because of Evolution?” by Zoltan Istvan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/do-we...volution
 
“Elon Musk Planning For Future” by Chris Smedley at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/elon-...r-future
 
“Europa’s Plume Morphology Shaped by Gas Drag” by Laurence Tognetti at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/europ...gas-drag
 
“Friendship Between Wolf And Bear Documented By A Photographer” by Michael LaTorra at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/frien...ographer
 
“Hack Your Gut From the Mind: The Brain’s Surprising Control Over Your Microbiome” by Better Than Yesterday: Biohacking & Healthy Aging at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/hack-...crobiome
 
“Hidden Geometries: The Search for Extra Dimensions and Their Technological Implications” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/hidde...ications
 
“Human trial finds therapeutic plasma exchange reduces biological age” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/human...ical-age
 
“Magnesium becomes a possible superconductor near the 2D limit” by Yuta Aoki at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/magne...2d-limit
 
“Markov chain” by Cecile G. Tamura at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/markov-chain
 
“Mathematician solves algebra’s oldest problem” by Arthur Brown at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/mathe...-problem
 
“Monte Carlo method” by Cecile G. Tamura at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/monte...o-method
 
“Natural short sleepers have a genetic mutation, finds new study” by Natalie Chan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/natur...ew-study
 
“The Neuralink Patient Registry is now open globally!” by Chris Smedley at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/the-n...globally
 
“New study achieves major advance towards fault-tolerant quantum computing” by Yuta Aoki at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/new-s...omputing
 
“Nonlinear sound-sheet microscopy: Imaging opaque organs at the capillary and cellular scale” by Logan Thrasher Collins at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/nonli...ar-scale
 
“Perseverance Mars rover captures first visible-light auroras during intense solar storm” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/perse...ar-storm
 
“Physicists develop new molecule that could shrink and speed up computers even more” by Dan Breeden at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/physi...ven-more
 
“Pitch Deck: AI Workplace Agent Startup, Coworker’s $13 Million Dollar Seed Round” by Bruce Burke at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/pitch...ed-round
 
“RIKEN and Fujitsu unveil world-leading 256-qubit quantum computer” by Yuta Aoki at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/riken...computer
 
“Scientists develop game-changing technology inspired by shark skin: ‘Eliminates any risk’” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/scien...any-risk
 
“Scientists discover the protein IL-17 that fights infection also acts on the brain, inducing anxiety or sociability” by Dan Breeden at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/scien...iability
 
“Scientists Unveil New Antibody That Supercharges Immune Attack on Tumors” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/scien...n-tumors
 
“Solar Panels and Property Prices: Separating Stigma from Reality” by Laurence Tognetti at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/solar...-reality
 
“Stanford Scientist Reversed His Age by 10 Years with a Simple Nature-Based Lifestyle” by Better Than Yesterday: Biohacking & Healthy Aging at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/stanf...ifestyle
 
“Supercharging the future: India’s Scientists design fast-charging & long-lasting sodium-ion battery” by Omuterema Akhahenda at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/super...-battery
 
“Surprise Link Between Menthol And Alzheimer’s Found in Mice” by Dan Kummer at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/surpr...-in-mice
 
“Teachers Using AI to Grade Their Students’ Work Sends a Clear Message: They Don’t Matter, and Will Soon Be Obsolete” by Mike Diverde at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/teach...obsolete
 
“Toxic Proteins for Drug Discovery” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/toxic...iscovery
 
“UCLA team developing inhalable gene-editing treatment for CF” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/ucla-...t-for-cf
 
“The Universe Creates Itself? New Theory Says Big Bang Never Happened” by Dan Breeden at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/the-u...happened
 
“Vitamin D supplements slow telomere loss, reducing biological agin” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/vitam...cal-agin
 
“What Is GPMI, The Potential New Successor To HDMI?” by Omuterema Akhahenda at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/what-...-to-hdmi
 
“Window-sized device taps the air for safe drinking water” by Omuterema Akhahenda at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/windo...ng-water
 
“World’s 1st ‘tooth regrowth medicine’ to be tested in Japan from Sept. 2024” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/world...ept-2024
 
“World’s Tiniest Pacemaker Is Smaller Than a Grain of Rice” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/world...-of-rice