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SpaceX is on an incredible roll. On Tuesday it launched the military’s newest, most accurate GPS satellite after a two-month delay due to the pandemic. A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, carrying the GPS satellite to orbit. The brand new first-stage booster with nine rocket engines landed perfectly […]
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Maccene Grimmett, at 106, was one of the first to test mobile voting when her county in Utah extended the mobile voting option to voters with disabilities in November 2019. Maccene recently turned 107 years old! Watch the video below where Maccene explains the importance of voting. Unfortunately, there is not enough time to properly […]
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I am learning a lot from Zoom webinars. Thursday night I attended one hosted by the Ridgefield, CT library. The subject was the impact of AI in health sciences, presented by an IBM PhD researcher. The library will host another fireside chat on July 14, “How to Strengthen Our Democracy in Troubling Times”. Unfortunately, there […]
The Simple Science of a Greenhouse
Every day, there are stories in the media about climate change. Opinions on the subject vary widely. Based on a UN report, Axios wrote “Nothing is happening remotely fast enough to save humanity from facing the self-inflicted disaster of runaway climate change”. Some see it quite differently. The challenge is the subject consists of incredibly […]
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Another fireside chat coming up July 14, “How to Strengthen Our Democracy in Troubling Times”. Unfortunately, there is not time to implement new mobile voting solutions in time for the November 3 election. Too bad. The need becomes more clear each day. Georgia was a disaster, disenfranchising a lot of votes. Paper ballot problems popping […]
