Lifeboat News #274

• BICA 2025
• Life Summit 2025
• Unicorn Summit Update
• Books
• Blog
• Growing Membership

BICA 2025

The 2025 Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, the 16th Annual Meeting of the BICA Society (BICA 2025) will be held August 6–10 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
 
Our Alexei Samsonovich will be speaking.
 
Learn more at https://www.bicaai.org

Life Summit 2025

Life Summit 2025 will be held May 27–28 in Berlin, Germany. This event offers the best networking opportunities in longevity and adjacent fields.
 
Our José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Emil Kendziorra, and Phil Newman will be speaking.
 
You can get a free premium ticket with code LIFEBOAT2025. (Limited supply!)
 
A premium ticket includes access to the Main and Side Stage; Exhibitor Area; Exclusive Masterclasses; Live Treatments (on a first-come, first-served basis) including infusions, ice baths, blood tests, face massages, yoga, pilates, epigenetic tests, and more; a Premium Goodie Bag containing high-value products from premium partners to take home; and fast-lane entry.
 
Learn more at https://www.lifesummit.berlin

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, 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, 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, Andrés Grases Briceño, Andrew Hessel, Naveen Jain, 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, Anders Sandberg, Vittorio Sebastiano, Seth Shostak, John M. Smart, Yael Sorek-Benvenisti, Paul A. Spiegel, Rohit Talwar, Natasha Vita-More, Peter Voss, Alex D. Wissner-Gross, Anna Yusim, Sajad Zalzala, and Alex Zhavoronkov will be speaking.
 
Learn more at https://unicornsummit.net

Books

Read “The Book of Arcism” by our Andrew Kuess at https://amzn.to/43lLEko
 
Arcism is a philosophy that advocates for the harmonious and sustainable expansion of humanity into space. It emphasizes ecological balance, cultural diversity, ethical governance, and technological advancement.
 
Arcism proposes the development of Space Arks — self-sustaining habitats that honor and preserve the diversity of Earth’s cultures, as an important aspect of our future ensuring that our cosmic expansion is both sustainable and spiritually meaningful.
 
Read “Cardiovascular Nanomedicine”, coedited by our Roger Narayan at https://amzn.to/3ERQ3lR
 
Read “Darkome” by our Hannu Rajaniemi at https://amzn.to/4k7qzQb
 
Bio-tech has arrived. It could pave the way to a greater future for humanity. It could also tear the human race apart.
 
Before the bio-terror attack, Darkome was a place where DIY genetics enthusiasts could communicate in peace. After the attack, they were pushed deep underground by a brutal government response. The perpetrators are on Darkome, and the biohacker community is simply too dangerous to be allowed to exist.
 
Read “Infinite Cosmos: Visions From the James Webb Space Telescope” by our Ethan Siegel at https://amzn.to/4iWuuOZ
 
Read “Jeanne Calment, the Secret of Longevity Unravelled: Volume I, The Switch”, coauthored by our Nikolay Zak at https://amzn.to/4k7Nhrx
 
Read “The Mobius Vector: The Long Road Home” by our Richard Thieme at https://amzn.to/44uPnNM
 
“The only way you can tell the truth is through fiction,” a veteran NSA senior told Richard Thieme. Mobius: A Memoir, a stunning exploration of the impact of a life of professional intelligence work, did just that and was lauded by readers “inside the fence” and out. The Mobius Vector, the second book of the Mobius Trilogy, continues the saga, illuminating Mobius’s life as a whistle blower and his search for redemption, love — and vengeance… The wild ride continues.
 
Read “Still Blue: New and Selected Poems and Retina Prints” by our Elizabeth Goldring at https://amzn.to/3GLtNuv
 
Still Blue collects Elizabeth’s key work across the decades in poetry and images. As a poet and visual artist who is legally blind, she explores different ways of seeing — through the concision of poetic syntax, through her innovative experiments with the scanning laser ophthalmoscope as an MIT researcher, and through poems that consider vision, its loss, disability more broadly, human mortality, natural beauty, and the poet’s response to war.
 
Also, the stunning visual images of the human retina offer bold statements of color, montage, and technological exploration.
 
Read “The Story of NanobacTX: How a Medical Maverick Restored Cardiovascular Health” by our Douglas Mulhall at https://amzn.to/3EYCNfa
 
Read “What ethics for transhumanism?: ‘Enhanced Men’ and ‘Posthumans’ soon in Africa?” by our Ebénézer Njoh-Mouellé at https://amzn.to/4m8xAlJ

Blog

Recent interesting blog posts include:
 
“$3000 Tesla Price Target?! He Explains” by Chris Smedley at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/3000-...explains
 
“A privately built spacecraft is about to attempt a moon landing” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/a-pri...-landing
 
“Aardvark Weather: The Future of AI-Driven Forecasting” by Laurence Tognetti at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/aardv...ecasting
 
“Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping Healthcare” by Karen Stuck Mortensen at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/artif...althcare
 
“Biological Age Reduced 23 Years — How Did He Do It? | Dr Michael Lustgarten Interview” by Montie Adkins at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/biolo...nterview
 
“Blind Children See for the First Time Thanks to a Revolutionary Gene Therapy” by Brent Ellman at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/blind...-therapy
 
“Brain-wide neuronal circuit connectome of human glioblastoma” by Logan Thrasher Collins at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/brain...blastoma
 
“Cell Cycle / Cell Division & its Regulation” by Myra Sehar at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/cell-...gulation
 
“Could anesthesia-induced dreams wipe away trauma?” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/could...y-trauma
 
“Defying Thermal Limits: Scientists Create a New, Ultra-Strong, Heat-Resistant Material” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/defyi...material
 
“Dietary AGE Products Shorten Lifespan On A Calorie Restricted Diet” by Mike Lustgarten at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/dieta...ted-diet
 
“FDA to phase out all artificial dyes from food and beverages” by Brent Ellman at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/fda-t...everages
 
“Google’s Taara takes on Starlink with laser-powered internet” by Raphael Ramos at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/googl...internet
 
“Graph Low-Rank Adapters of High Regularity for Graph Neural Networks and Graph Transformers” by Cecile G. Tamura at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/graph...sformers
 
“The Gut Microbiome Could Help Our Bodies Fight Cancer” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/the-g...t-cancer
 
“The Hidden Chemistry of Planet Formation” by Laurence Tognetti at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/the-h...ormation
 
“How 1,500 Nuclear-Powered Water Desalination Plants Could Save The World From Desertification” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/how-1...fication
 
“Interpretable deep learning for deconvolutional analysis of neural signals” by Dan Breeden at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/inter...-signals
 
“Iron-fortified lumber could be a greener alternative to steel beams” by Rx Sobolewski at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/iron-...el-beams
 
“It’s a quantum zoo out there, and scientists just found a dozen new ‘species’” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/its-a...-species
 
“Japan reveals the world’s first solar super-panel: More power than 20 nuclear reactors” by Tom Soetebier at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/japan...reactors
 
“Meta Releases Two Llama 4 AI Models” by Bruce Burke at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/meta-...i-models
 
“Microplastics may threaten global food supply by disrupting photosynthesis” by Yuta Aoki at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/micro...ynthesis
 
“Nanoscale tweaks help alloy withstand high-speed impacts” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/nanos...-impacts
 
“New AI breakthrough can model and design genetic code across all domains of life” by Mishari Al Hasawi at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/new-a...-of-life
 
“New antibiotics discovery could turn tide against drug-resistant bugs” by Robert Bosnjak at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/new-a...ant-bugs
 
“‘Nothing Could Solve It’: Brutal New AGI Test Exposes Alarming Limits as Top AI Models Fail Spectacularly” by Jeremy Dylan Batterson at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/nothi...acularly
 
“NVIDIA Announces Spectrum-X Photonics, Co-Packaged Optics Networking Switches to Scale AI Factories to Millions of GPUs” by Cecile G. Tamura at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/nvidi...-of-gpus
 
“The Origins of Us: Where do we come from? | Deep Dive AI Podcast” by Alex Vikoulov at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/the-o...-podcast
 
“The Ouroboros Code by Antonin Tuynman, PhD” by Alex Vikoulov at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/the-o...nman-phd
 
“Powering the Moon: Solar Cells from Lunar Dust” by Laurence Tognetti at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/power...nar-dust
 
“The Primal Eye” by Steve Nichols at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/the-primal-eye
 
“Revolutionizing 3D vision: How miniaturized snapshot polarization imaging is transforming depth sensing” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/revol...-sensing
 
“Sending Signals like Neurons Do (At the Edge of Chaos)” by Dan Breeden at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/sendi...of-chaos
 
“SoftBank Group In Talks To Borrow $16 Billion To Fund Artificial Intelligence” by Bruce Burke at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/softb...lligence
 
“Some Version of You Always Beats Death, According to This Scientific Theory” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/some-...c-theory
 
“The Space Revolution” by Rick Tumlinson at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/the-s...volution
 
“Triggering Cancer Cells To Self-Destruct Could Help Tumors to Shrink” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/trigg...o-shrink
 
“When Will AGI/Singularity Happen? ~8,600 Predictions Analyzed” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/when-...analyzed
 
“Why Elon Musk Says The Tesla Bot Is More Important Than Tesla Vehicles” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/why-e...vehicles
 
“Young Plasma Improves Surgery” by Chris Linnell at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/young...-surgery
 
“Your Consciousness May Arise Before Birth, New Study Suggests” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/your-...suggests