To ensure rural communities don’t miss a pending grant deadline from the federal government, the Alaska Senate rushed a bill through on Monday that increases state spending to rural school districts that buy old-school broadband service from companies like GCI. The next stop is the governor’s desk. School districts will qualify for higher speed Internet …
By KELLY TSHIBAKA In the ‘80s and ‘90s, movies like the Terminator series, space-age technology, and the dot com boom gave rise to some science fiction technophobe speculation – robots will take over someday, artificial intelligence will determine that mankind is irrelevant and eliminate it, and sentient technology will replace humans as our leaders. Most Americans …
Although Senate Bill 140 is now a comprehensive education package with provisions for student transportation, correspondence schools, charter schools, teacher bonuses, and basic funding for school districts, it started out as a simple bill: Higher speed internet for schools in rural Alaska. The text of the original bill is simple, and just 56 words: “Each …
A sounding rocket launched from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, Nov. 8, 2023, … [+] carrying NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s DISSIPATION mission. The rocket launched into aurora and successfully captured data to understand how auroras heat the atmosphere and cause high-altitude winds. NASA/Lee Wingfield NASA has revealed that it fired a suborbital …
US-Russia Shared Beringian Heritage Program U.S. National Park Service. Shared Beringian Heritage Program A year has passed since the Biden Administration announced that they were appointing a new “Arctic Ambassador,” due to growing security concerns highlighted by NATO in this region. It took a further six months to choose the envoy and in February of …
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Ben Huff’s photographs and text feature college student Abby Watts from Juneau, Alaska, standing on a nunatak, an exposed ridge above the Juneau Icefield. Accompanied by Fabienne Meier, a student from Zurich, Switzerland, Watts studies enormous boulders in varying shades of gray. They record data in a waterproof yellow notebook, measuring the rocks in centimeters. …