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U.S. Air Force Assigns Two Block Buy Launches

Laura Samsó — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:46:05 +0000

http://spacenews.com/u-s-air-force-assigns-two-block-buy-launches/

The Earth’s Evaporating Aquifers — By Robinson Meyer | The Atlantic

Odette Bohr Dienel — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 14:39:12 +0000

“Many—if not most—of the Earth’s aquifers are in trouble. … That’s the finding of a group of NASA scientists, who published their study of global groundwater this week in the journal Water Resources Research. Water levels in 21 of the world’s 37 largest known aquifers, they report, are trending negative.”

The Arctic’s Internet Is So Expensive That People Mail the Web on USB Drives — Via Motherboard

Odette Bohr Dienel — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 14:53:32 +0000

“Canada’s domestic digital divide, with the North as its epicenter, has been a point of growing concern over the last several years. Much of the internet in the northernmost regions of the country is still beamed down by satellites, but a plan to link Europe and Asia with fiber optic cable via Nunavut is currently being negotiated by a Toronto-based company called Arctic Fibre.”