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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. For instance, the fibers in the cable could be used to collect seismic data via a new technique called “ distributed acoustic sensing.

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Regher Solar is ready to meet the new space industry’s demand for cheaper, better solar panels

TechCrunch

” Although the product is new, it doesn’t use any exotic or unprecedented techniques, so ramping up like that really may be possible. They also snagged a NASA SBIR Phase I award and an NSF Phase II, totaling $1.1 Whether the hard part is designing the new panel or actually making it, though?

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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

She has created " quilts " on canvas and evolved this technique into a story quilt, where she wrote the story in words she wanted to tell on the canvas so it couldn't be interpreted by someone else. According to Benjamin Stokes, co-founder of Game sfor Change, the NSF has funded several game projects aimed at girls.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

Museum 2.0

Funders like the NSF have encouraged science centers in particular to share their techniques and evaluations, which is fabulous but also leads to rampant and sometimes unthinking imitation. The content is often seen as not being community-specific. Science is science, and grocery store exhibits are grocery store exhibits.

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