McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — A-L-I-E-N spells a five-letter word that has been part of the U.S. government’s lexicon since 1798 and migrant advocates say they want it forever retired and are encouraged by a push from the new administration to do so.
Replacing it with the word “noncitizen” has been proposed as part of the President Joe Biden’s sweeping immigration overhaul bill that was sent to Congress this week under the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021.
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Top books for winter 2021, from Stephen King, Kazuo Ishiguro, others
According to people who keep track of these things, the COVID-19 era has been a golden age for bookselling. People are buying — and maybe even reading — books at levels not seen since the days when Harry Potter, Morrie, and the Horse Whisperer roamed the Earth.
Why? Maybe we've realized that anti-intellectualism is the root of all of the world's problems and we need to be well-read warriors for human smartness. Or maybe we feel like the people and pets we've been locked down with are no longer pulling their weight, conversation-wise. It's probably the second one.
Did Earth Receive a Radio Transmission From Proxima Centauri? | KQED
A team of astronomers is hard at work analyzing an unusual radio signal detected early in 2019 by the Parkes telescope , a 64-meter radio dish in eastern Australia. The signal appears to have come from the direction of Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our solar system, and its characteristics are more typical of an artificial broadcast than a natural radio source.
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However, even the signal’s discoverers, researchers with a group called the Breakthrough Listen Initiative , caution that although the signal had very particular qualities that set it apart from typical natural radio emissions, it will most likely turn out to be noise or interference caused by our own communication technology here on Earth, or even a natural phenomenon that has simply not been observed before.
My university plans to terminate my department. We're trying to save it | Science | AAAS
I logged onto a video call last month, not knowing what to expect. Faculty members in my department had just 1 day's notice of the meeting with our dean, which made me wonder, "Is it another budget cut—or worse?" After a quick apology, the dean pivoted to the news: Given the crunch on university finances amid the COVID-19 pandemic, he'd made a difficult decision to terminate the geology department. If we wanted to keep our jobs, we'd have to find another department willing to take us in.
Three years ago, the same dean had asked us for help. His budget was in the red because enrollments were falling and a new budget system had moved money out of his college. The geology department had a few large, popular courses, but many of our upper-level classes were highly specialized, attracting only a handful of students. Fewer than 10 students a year majored in geology. We needed larger class sizes and more students to enroll as majors, the dean told us.
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Space Business: Exit Interview — Space Business — Quartz
Largest sea on Saturn’s moon Titan could be more than 1,000 feet deep | Technology News,The
Saturn’s largest of the 82 moons, Titan’s biggest water body is more than 1,000 feet deep near its centre. The Kraken Mare is so deep that its exact depth could not be measured. The new findings were obtained from the data collected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Cassini mission. Seven years ago, it was believed that the depth of the extraterrestrial lake was 115 feet at least.
"The depth and composition of each of Titan’s seas had already been measured, except for Titan'’s largest sea, Kraken Mare, which not only has a great name, but also contains about 80% of the moon’s surface liquids," said lead author Valerio Poggiali, a research associate at the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science (CCAPS).
NASA mission to test technology for satellite swarms | EurekAlert! Science News
IMAGE: Three small CubeSats will be placed into low-Earth orbit where they will demonstrate how satellites might track and communicate with each other, setting the stage for swarms of thousands... view more
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PITTSBURGH--A NASA mission slated for launch on Friday will place three tiny satellites into low-Earth orbit, where they will demonstrate how satellites might track and communicate with each other, setting the stage for swarms of thousands of small satellites that can work cooperatively and autonomously.
Around the remote: Chuck Barney's TV and streaming picks for Jan.
DON'T MISS: "Snowpiercer" — In Season 2 of the post-apocalyptic thrill ride, an entirely new power struggle emerges on the speeding train. It causes a dangerous rift as people are divided between their loyalty to rebel leader Layton (Daveed Diggs) and to scheming billionaire Mr. Wilford (Sean Bean), who has a new train, new technology and a game plan that keeps everyone guessing.
SUNDAY: Written, directed and produced by Edward Burns, "Bridge and Tunnel" is a dramedy series set in 1980 and pegged to a group of recent college grads. They're setting out to pursue their dreams in Manhattan, but still clinging to the familiarity of their working-class Long Island home town. (9 p.m., Epix).
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