Lifeboat Foundation

Mar 17 2020

Social distancing is here to stay for much more than a few weeks. It will upend our way of life, in some ways forever.

An agency tasked with tracking future bio threats fell down on the job, causing us to wonder what else we don’t know.

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Billionaire CEO told employees to ‘tighten their belts’.

Brian May is providing tutorials and a gear walkthrough for those practicing guitar in self-isolation.

Circa 2018

Discovery could provide environmentally friendly way to purify water contaminated by mining activity, say researchers.

Continue reading “Scientists discover moss that filters arsenic out of water, making it safe to drink” »

Circa 2019

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Continue reading “Defense Officials See Increased Threat from Chinese Russian ChemBio Weapon” »

The most common materials in the world, including plastic, steel, glass or wood have distinct molecular and chemical properties that give them intrinsic qualities, such as strength, flexibility or transparency. But an entirely different class of materials, called metamaterials, are coming onto the scene.

Artificially engineered, these materials have unique geometries and physical structures that can manipulate any mechanical or electromagnetic wave that passes through them. Metamaterials can perform a host of futuristic tricks; they can absorb sound waves to produce silence, bend light to create an invisibility cloak and dampen seismic waves to safeguard a building against an earthquake.

Metamaterial applications are numerous, but here are five of the coolest.

A Permaculture Perspective : A new docuemntary introducing permaculture: designing a world where and planet can thrive.

The hole in the ozone layer is starting to recover thanks to regulations banning ozone-depleting substances, and this is now leading to changes in Earth’s atmosphere.