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New FeedJournal LinkedIn Group

Are you on LinkedIn and love FeedJournal ? Now you have a chance to express your love by joining the brand new FeedJournal LinkedIn group ! This way you can showcase the FeedJournal logo on your profile page, engage in forum discussions, and connect with other users of the service.

FeedJournal Publisher Does E-Mail

A small but often requested feature has been added to FeedJournal Publisher . It is now possible to define e-mail recipients that will be sent new issues of generated newspapers as attachments. Please try out the new function and let me know how it works. This feaure is available to all FeedJournal Publisher Gold members.

The Council for the Survival of Humankind

Recently, the submission deadline passed for Google's 10 to the 100th contest , with a stupendous $10 million in the prize pool. More than 100,000 ideas to change the world were received. My entry has the extraordinary goal of saving the human race from extinction. Here's my idea. As a background, let's take the Fermi Paradox . It asks why we haven't had contact with alien lifeforms, despite our belief that alien civilizations are common in the universe. One theory trying to explain it is that a Great Filter stands in the way of the evolution of civilizations, causing their annihilation before reaching a stage where they are able to communicate with other civilizations. Such a filter could be either behind us or in our future. If it is in our future we need to mitigate its risks and prepare for it. Regardless if you believe in the Filter or not, the fact is that a number of existential risks pose a danger to our existence as a species. Some philosophers are estimatin