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High-speed internet could be coming to Antarctica

The Verge

Earlier this year, the NSF began seriously exploring the possibility of building a fiber optic cable that would travel along the seafloor from Antarctica to neighboring New Zealand or Australia. The idea was first raised a little over a decade ago but lost traction as other projects took priority. That could soon change, however.

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Lung-health startup Respira Labs inhales $2.8M to help respiration patients breathe easier

TechCrunch

million in grants from Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes for Health (NIH). On top of the investment raised, the company was awarded an additional $1.8

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Cyberinfrastructure: What is it? What does it mean?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Back in the early 1990s, I was "hoisting" web pages onto the Internet with a colleague David Green who worked at the New York Foundation for the Arts on the Arts Wire project.

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Docugami’s new model for understanding documents cuts its teeth on NASA archives

TechCrunch

Through its many past and present programs, solicitations, grant programs, budgets, and of course engineering projects, it generates a huge amount of documents — being, after all, very much a part of the federal bureaucracy. But NASA isn’t looking for new insights into Apollo 11. “Oh, we’re not running on grants!

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Takeaways From the Year-End Nonprofit Fundraising Survey

NonProfit Hub

This annual report collects data on everything from overall sector growth, to fundraising goals, to regional data, to projections for the future. At the end of the report, the NSF asked charities to predict what their fundraising would look like in 2018. It’s thorough, to say the least. How has 2018 stacked up?

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Faith Ringgold: 30 Years of Art-Making and Activism and Video Clip on Women Artists

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to Benjamin Stokes, co-founder of Game sfor Change, the NSF has funded several game projects aimed at girls. There's a growing number of artists, like Mary Flanagan who is on the board of Games for Change, interested in games.

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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

Museum 2.0

What was the basis for this project? How did this come to be an ASTC (Association of Science and Technology Centers) project? Wendy: Part of the thinking was that NSF supported the book Are We There Yet? , NSF requires grant applicants to build on prior knowledge--where do you get it? Why is that?

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