Save The Nukes
From my hometown, I can see the water vapor plumes from the Byron Nuclear Generating Station some 25 miles away. It’s been a familiar sight on the horizon for over …
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Celebrate National Weather Person’s Day
Just 3 days after the most watched weather prognostication all year, it’s time to celebrate the real weather forecasters. You know, the people working behind the scenes and in front …
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Super Blue Blood Moon 2018
What are you doing this January 31? Make sure your plans include watching the Super Blue Blood Moon, likely the big sky show of 2018. Super what? Super Blue …
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Net Neutrality: It’s Much More Important Than It Should Be
The Internet has been my life for the last 20 years or so. Oh, it’s been around longer than that. I only got on when they released it to the …
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Crowd Sourced Infrastructure Re-energizes Puerto Rico
What do you do when your cities are flattened by a hurricane, the already-crumbling power, water, and communication infrastructure gives up the ghost, and the official government assessment is several …
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Cassini – Huygens 20 Year Mission of Discovery
On September 15, an amazing 20 year mission of exploration and discovery came to an end… or did it? Cassini-Huygens, often called just Cassini for short, has been a NASA …
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Time For an X Prize to Rebuild Puerto Rico?
The hurricane disaster in Puerto Rico presents one of the worst humanitarian crises in memory and, perhaps, one of the greatest opportunities to improve our world through technology we’ve ever …
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