Lifeboat News #263

• 11th Aging Research & Drug Discovery Meeting (ARDD 2024)
• Longevity Summit Dublin 2024 Update
• Recognition
• Books
• Papers
• Videos
• Blog
• Growing Membership

11th Aging Research & Drug Discovery Meeting (ARDD 2024)

The 11th Aging Research & Drug Discovery Meeting (ARDD 2024) will be held August 26–30 in Cyberspace and at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
 
Our Rozalyn Anderson, Daniela Bakula, Nir Barzilai, Evelyne Yehudit Bischof, Filipe Cabreiro, Aubrey de Grey, João Pedro de Magalhães, Marco Demaria, Collin Ewald, Luigi Ferrucci, Kristen Fortney, Vadim N. Gladyshev, Vera Gorbunova, Steve Horvath, Joshua Johnson, Jamie Justice, Brian K. Kennedy, Andrea B. Maier, Alexey Moskalev, Anders Sandberg, Morten Scheibye-Knudsen, Björn Schumacher, Vittorio Sebastiano, Petr Sramek, Yousin Suh, Joseph Takahashi, Mourad (Toporsian) Topors, Jan Vijg, and Alex Zhavoronkov will be speaking.
 
Learn more at https://agingpharma.org

Longevity Summit Dublin 2024 Update

The Longevity Summit Dublin 2024 will be held June 13–16 in Dublin, Ireland.
 
Our Rozalyn Anderson, Alberto Aparicio, David Barzilai, María Blasco, Holly M. Brown-Borg, Sebastian A. Brunemeier, Didier Coeurnelle, José Luis Cordeiro, Walter Harvey Crompton, Patrizia d’Alessio, Joris Deelen, Aubrey de Grey, Ben Goertzel, Jan Gruber, Steve Horvath, Georges Janssens, Brian K. Kennedy, Melissa King, Waclaw Jan Kroczek, Andy D. Lee, Caitlin Lewis, Andrea B. Maier, Francesca Martina, Ben Meyers, Matthew “Oki” O’Connor, Martin O’Dea, Jennifer Pearlman, Kennedy (Matsagas) Schaal, Morten Scheibye-Knudsen, Björn Schumacher, Evan Y. Snyder, Emma Teeling, Alexandru-Ioan Voda, and Alex Zhavoronkov will be speaking.
 
Learn more at https://longevitysummitdublin.com

Recognition

Reader’s Digest recognized our Younghoon Bryan Kim as the smartest person in the world with an IQ of 276 at https://www.rd.com/list/highest-iq-in-the-world

Books

Read “Distant Wanderers: The Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System” by our Bruce Dorminey at https://amzn.to/3VNhjWO
 
Read the finalist for the Hugo Award, “Earth”, by our David Brin at https://amzn.to/3RJlCBy
 
Scientist Alex Lustig has created a tiny, yet very destructive, problem — a microscopic black hole that he accidentally dropped into Earth’s core. Now, racing to keep it from consuming the planet, he begins to suspect something even stranger is going on. Something linked to civilization’s expanding information web.
 
Read “I Refuse to Kill: My Path to Nonviolent Action in the 1960s” by our Francesco Da Vinci at https://amzn.to/3W1Rlk1
 
Read “Pulmonary Nanomedicine: Diagnostics, Imaging, and Therapeutics” by our Neeraj Vij at https://amzn.to/3XHV7Ak
 
Read “Taming the Machine: Ethically Harness the Power of AI” by our Nell Watson at https://amzn.to/3LlYJ3D

Papers

Read “Rethinking National Security” (PDF) by our Martin E. Hellman at https://www-ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/pu...s/78.pdf
 
Read “Second-order Dialogue and Higher Order Discourse for the Future: Potential implications of second-order cybernetics and higher-order communication possibilities” by our Anthony Judge at https://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs20...rder.php

Videos

Watch Coni Koepfinger’s “Life in the Multiverse” a short story at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws_zNqZ9KbQ
 
Learn about our Coni Koepfinger at https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.coni.ciong...epfinger

Blog

Recent interesting blog posts include:
 
“A Framework for Intelligence and Cortical Function Based on Grid Cells in the Neocortex” by Dan Breeden at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/04/a-fra...eocortex
 
“A fungus converts cellulose directly into a novel platform chemical” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/05/a-fun...chemical
 
“AMD reveals the MI325X, a 288GB AI accelerator built to battle Nvidia’s H200” by Eric Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/amd-r...ias-h200
 
“An alternative way to manipulate quantum states” by Cecile G. Tamura at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/an-al...m-states
 
“Biotech companies are trying to make milk without cows” by Robert Bosnjak at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/biote...out-cows
 
“Boston Dynamics’ new robot Atlas is more agile and all-electric” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/04/bosto...electric
 
“BYD’s Revolutionary New Battery: 10-Minute Electric Car Charging” by Chris Smedley at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/byds-...charging
 
“ChatGPT Prompt Generator: Free Online Tool” by Arthur Brown at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/05/chatg...ine-tool
 
“The dangerous illusion of AI consciousness” by Zola Balazs Bekasi at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/05/the-d...iousness
 
“Dead birds made into drones could spy on animals or humans” by Raphael Ramos at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/05/dead-...r-humans
 
“Don’t Miss the ‘Planetary Parade’ — Witness Six Planets Align in a Rare Display” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/dont-...-display
 
“Electron vortices in graphene detected for the first time” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/05/elect...rst-time
 
“Elon Musk says he wants Optimus to be a ‘good looking robot’ that people think of as a friend” by Chris Smedley at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/elon-...a-friend
 
“Exclusive: Elon Musk discusses Starship’s 4th Flight” by Claudio Soprano at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/exclu...h-flight
 
“First ‘extreme’ solar storm in 20 years brings spectacular auroras” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/05/first...-auroras
 
“The future of AI looks like THIS (& it can learn infinitely)” by Dan Kummer at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/the-f...finitely
 
“Honda Joins Race for High Tech 3D-Printed Metal Car Parts” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/04/honda...ar-parts
 
“How NASA’s Roman Mission will Hunt for Primordial Black Holes” by Natalie Chan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/05/how-n...ck-holes
 
“How Space Flight Alters Kidney Structure and Function” by Laurence Tognetti at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/how-s...function
 
“Hungry, Hungry White Dwarfs: Solving the Puzzle of Stellar Metal Pollution” by Natalie Chan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/05/hungr...ollution
 
“Joints that could heal themselves? Researchers could get there in 5 years” by Roman Kam at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/joint...-5-years
 
“Lifelike robot invasion: Inside China’s insane humanoid factory” by Gemechu Taye at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/05/lifel...-factory
 
“Liquid droplets shape how cells respond to change, shows study” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/04/liqui...ws-study
 
“MIT’s powerful chip offers AI boost, defense against data breach” by Gemechu Taye at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/04/mits-...a-breach
 
“New Discovery Pinpoints Origin of Sun’s Magnetic Field” by Laurence Tognetti at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/05/new-d...ic-field
 
“Nuclear rocket with 100,000 N thrust could offer fastest Mars trips” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/05/nucle...rs-trips
 
“Personalized Residuals for Concept-Driven Text-to-Image Generation” by Cecile G. Tamura at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/05/perso...neration
 
“Physicists demonstrate first metro-area quantum computer network in Boston” by Robert Bosnjak at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/05/physi...n-boston
 
“Priya Basu — Executive Head, The Pandemic Fund — Strengthening Prevention, Preparedness And Response” by Ira S. Pastor at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/05/priya...response
 
“Saudi Arabia Discovers It’s Hard to Build a 105-Mile Skyscraper” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/05/saudi...yscraper
 
“The Secrets to Enhancing Memory for Everyone” by Dan Breeden at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/04/the-s...everyone
 
“Smart contact lens battery powered by your tears was inspired by Mission Impossible” by Rx Sobolewski at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/smart...possible
 
“Study Offers New Detail on how COVID-19 Affects the Lungs” by Natalie Chan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/study...he-lungs
 
“Sun’s magnetic field discovered 20,000 miles below surface: Study” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/05/suns-...ce-study
 
“This Tiny Frog Emits a Powerful Ultrasonic Scream No Human Can Hear” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/04/this-...can-hear
 
“Thyroid Hormones (FT4, FT3): What’s Optimal?” by Mike Lustgarten at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/05/thyro...-optimal
 
“Tweak to Schrödinger’s cat equation could unite Einstein’s relativity and quantum mechanics, study hints” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/04/tweak...dy-hints
 
“US Wants To Create ‘Hellscape’ Of Drones If China Attacks Taiwan” by Robert Bosnjak at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/us-wa...s-taiwan
 
“We are definitely living in a simulation | Roman Yampolskiy and Lex Fridman” by Roman Kam at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/we-ar...-fridman
 
“Why a new method of growing food on Mars matters more on Earth” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/why-a...on-earth
 
“William Shatner joins oversight committee for 130-year lifespan trials” by Chris Smedley at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/willi...n-trials
 
“Wind from black holes may influence development of surrounding galaxies” by Josh Seeherman at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/wind-...galaxies