How Robots Help Refuel Satellites

While many modern satellites are powered by onboard solar panels and batteries, most currently orbiting satellites required fuel. Each is equipped with enough hypergolic fuel to last throughout its entire mission, but what happens when these satellites run out of gas? NASA has come up with a solution: Restore-L.

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Food, Data and Modernity

People are driven by scarcity. Things of value, with limited availability, drive a strong desire for more. Information used to be like that. We had very few channels for accessing knowledge. It used to be difficult to find esoteric content. But once we found it, it was usually of high quality. But information in today’s world has done a complete turn around. Now it’s easy to find on any topic, but much harder to rely on the quality.

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Learning Google Adwords Basics in 7 Steps

Marketers usually grumble when they are unable to track and measure campaigns and the results associated. But with Google Adwords, measuring every single aspect of the marketing campaign is possible. It is a paid service to spread the word about your business on search engines.

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Is The United States Shrinking? The View from Sharjah

As I write this, I am just back - last night - from Sharjah, where I spoke at a conference. With all due respect to my most gracious hosts, before receiving the invitation to speak in Sharjah, I had never even heard of it. This is despite the fact that I have been to the United Arab Emirates (of which Sharjah is one) before, for a World Health Organization project in Abu Dhabi some years ago. I have been to neighboring Qatar for a public health conference as well. Even so, I had not heard of Sharjah- which now occupies a special place in my memory, and a warm spot in my heart.

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Bakkt to the Drawing Board for the World’s First Deliverable Bitcoin Futures

Henry Harianto wipes another bead of sweat off his forehead with the back of his hand. His tattered singlet plastered with sweat against his skinny bony back, the 24-year-old Indonesian is waiting patiently at the docks of Jakarta’s Tanjung Priok port to load a delivery.

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