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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 […]
What Is Your Carbon Footprint?
As discussed last week, life on Earth depends on energy coming from the Sun. The greenhouse effect has protected life on Earth from unlivable cold conditions for as long as life has been here. To keep greenhouse gases in perspective, we need to remember greenhouse gases are a good thing, but only as long as […]
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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 […]
What Are the Top Greenhouse Gases?
As discussed last week, life on Earth depends on energy coming from the Sun. The greenhouse effect enables us to live here. About half the light reaching Earth’s atmosphere passes through the air and clouds on the way to the surface. The light is then absorbed and radiated upward in the form of infrared heat. […]
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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 […]