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Google Maps’ new ‘Immersive View’ combines Street View with satellites

Google Maps’ new ‘Immersive View’ combines Street View with satellites

Google launched a new mode for Maps on Wednesday, designed to give users a more real-life look at the places they’re going before they even go.   The new Immersive View is sort of a Street View in the sky: you can look over a location from above to get a sense of the neighborhood and then drop to street level to see the specific spots you might want to hit up. Maps overlays its live busyness and traffic info, so you get a quasi-augmented reality look at whatever park or street corner or beach spot you’re looking at. The images behind...

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What If We Use Rockets Rather Than Airplanes to Get Around Our Planet?

What If We Use Rockets Rather Than Airplanes to Get Around Our Planet?

Last month, The New Yorker magazine published a story about plans to build a spaceport on Lake Superior in Upper Michigan to launch rockets. The idea was to put the launch facility on the lake to be far enough from local communities to eliminate risk and noise from operating the facility which would serve to launch rockets to low-Earth-orbit. The story noted that this would make Upper Michigan the next U.S. spaceport joining thirteen others in existence. The author got the number wrong. Today in the United States there are twenty spaceports already operating. The list includes one in Alaska, Colorado, Georgia, New...

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Carbon Dioxide Removal from our oceans. Can we achieve 20 BILLION tonnes per year?

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How do you solve a problem like Carbon Removal in 100 seconds?

How do you solve a problem like Carbon Removal in 100 seconds?

Marcius Extavour, Vice President of Energy and Climate at XPRIZE speaks on how we can address carbon in our biosphere and move to a carbon negative society in 100 seconds 

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The Plan to Make Michigan the Next Space State Space State

The Plan to Make Michigan the Next Space State Space State

One of the largest log cabins in the world can be found in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, on the edge of Lake Superior. The property, called Granot Loma, is twenty-six thousand square feet, and it belongs to Tom Baldwin, a sixty-five-year-old former bond and commodities trader. Baldwin made his fortune in the Treasury-bond pit at the Chicago Board of Trade, where his colleagues referred to him as the King. He was known for trading two billion dollars’ worth of bonds in a single day. Last fall, I drove to see him at Granot Loma, in Powell Township, seventeen miles...

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