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How you can help save declining butterflies

Fast Company Tech

Butterflies have a high surface-to-volume ratio they dont hold much moisture so they can easily become desiccated in dry conditions. With restoration efforts, one Karner blue population in the Albany Pine Bush Preserve in New York rebounded from a few hundred individuals in the early 1990s to thousands of butterflies.

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How publishing brands can grow internationally in 2014

The Next Web

At a recent Professional Publishers Association conference, Nicholas Coleridge, president of Condé Nast International, took the opportunity to urge the “stick-in-the-muds” at the ABC auditing body to include tablet edition sales in its figures as soon as possible, or risk making their figures increasingly irrelevant. There are 1.8m

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Watch Joby Aviation’s electric air taxi complete a 150-mile flight

The Verge

If you want to fly from New York City to Montauk, Joby wanted to show that it can get you there without running out of juice. The power-to-weight ratio is one of the biggest inhibitors. Rather than fly between two points, Joby’s aircraft flew in a 14-mile circle 11 times for a total flight time of one hour and 17 minutes.

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China’s work automation startup Laiye raises $160M, acquires France’s Mindsay

TechCrunch

Mindsay nicely complements Laiye’s main product offerings, which include conversational AI and robotic process automation (RPA), a technology that mimics repetitive human actions interacting with digital interfaces, such as processing an insurance claim, and one that has been popularized by New York-based UiPath.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Code Liberation Foundation ( codeliberation.org ) aims to change the female-to-male ratio in video game development by offering free workshops in order to facilitate the creation of video game titles by women. In 2013 alone, the organization ran over 100 hours of programming in New York City.

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Ten Signs of Financial Trouble for Board Members

BoardAssist

AUDITOR DOES NOT MEET WITH BOARD – For New York nonprofits required to have an annual audit, the Nonprofit Revitalization Act requires that the Board meet with the auditor twice: before the audit to understand the audit goals and activities and again afterward to review the results.

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Kodland, which teaches kids digital skills, grabs $9M to scale its online coding school

TechCrunch

The round is led by Redseed Ventures, with participation from Baring Vostok, Kismet, Flyer One Ventures and Alexander Nevinsky, a partner at New York-based I2BF. Kodland’s remote courses for children aged 6-17 are currently available in the U.K., Ireland, the U.S., Gift Guide: 20+ STEM toy gift ideas for aspiring young builders.

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