Good News For Sailors: High Tech Lasers Could Replace Needle Guns

https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/good-news-for-sailors-high-tech-lasers-could-replace-needle-guns

Google News - Ignore the tech naysayers — San Francisco isn't dying

https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEOkBtmyuT_mKf7WD_5h4_VAqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow2Nb3CjDivdcCMJ_d7gU?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

Explore - Friends Of The Mississippi River Basin Model

https://friendsofmrbm.org/explore/

This Junior Coastie Accidentally Bought Dinner for the Premier of Greenland -- And Earned a Medal

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/12/01/junior-coastie-accidentally-bought-dinner-premier-of-greenland-and-earned-medal.html

Riskiest Spot for Rising Seas Is 50 Miles from the Ocean - Scientific American

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/riskiest-spot-for-rising-seas-is-50-miles-from-the-ocean/

The Abandoned Trolley Graveyard: Deus ex Machina

https://www.abandonedamerica.us/the-trolley-graveyard

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nishandegnarain/2020/11/15/americas-forgotten-marine-highway-network-that-could-green-global-freight-transport/

Vintage Relief - Muir Way

https://muir-way.com/collections/vintage-relief

How Climate Migration Will Reshape America - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/15/magazine/climate-crisis-migration-america.html

USCG Anchorage Flag

https://compass.coastguard.blog/2020/07/09/the-long-blue-line-coast-guards-anchorage-flag-and-early-port-security/

Rising Seas Threaten an American Institution: The 30-Year Mortgage - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/climate/climate-seas-30-year-mortgage.html

New Navy Secretary Wastes No Time In Calling Navy History To Arms

https://www.forbes.com/sites/craighooper/2020/06/18/new-navy-secretary-wastes-no-time--in-calling-navy-history-to-arms/

Mexico City National Cemetery

When I was assigned to U.S. Embassy in Mexico, I participated in Veteran's and Memorial Day ceremonies here.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mexico-city-national-cemetery

Crowdsourcing Stone Walls

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/crowdsourcing-to-map-the-stone-walls-of-new-hampshire

What a Buried Crater in Mexico Says About the Asteroid That Doomed the Dinosaurs

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/buried-crater-mexico-asteroid-doomed-dinosaurs

War Needs Art

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/19/national-security-policymaking-mythos-logos-strategy/

Coronavirus policies spread quickly across the U.S. Are cities and states learning — or just copying? - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/16/coronavirus-policies-spread-quickly-across-us-are-cities-states-learning-or-just-copying/ 

As Pershing Park becomes a WWI memorial, it doesn’t save the park for people

https://ggwash.org/view/77338/pershing-park-world-war-i-memorial-process-outcomes-preservation-livability 

Federal Agencies Seek New Steward for Boston Light

https://coastguardnews.com/federal-agencies-seek-new-steward-for-boston-light/2020/05/13/

Cut off from flights, cruise lines turn to their own ships to get stranded crew home

https://thepointsguy.com/news/cruise-line-crew-repatriation-sailings/

How to get to Greenland By Air

I can attest two both of these options

https://thepointsguy.com/guide/getting-to-greenland/

In a Pandemic, We're All 'Transit Dependent' - CityLab

https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2020/04/coronavirus-public-transit-subway-bus-ridership-revenue/609556/

The Crisis Could Last 18 Months. Be Prepared. (but what that means to all of us will evolve)

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/there-isnt-going-be-all-clear-signal/608512/

Maritime Industry Training

Here's an idea for the to-do list: #NMIO Introduction to Maritime
Industry online course. https://nmio.port.training/

Our office developed this no-cost online course to provide law
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San Francisco’s Newest Bison Are Making Themselves at Home

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-bison-golden-gate-park-sf

Smart Fisheries for the 21st Century

http://blogs.edf.org/edfish/2020/02/04/smart-fisheries-for-the-21st-century/

xkcd: Solar System Changes

https://xkcd.com/2258/ 

Sea-Level Rise Could Reshape the United States, Trigger Migration Inland - USC Viterbi | School of Engineering

https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2020/01/sea-level-rise-could-reshape-the-united-states-trigger-migration-inland/

Achterhoeks Planetarium in Toldijk, Netherlands

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/achterhoeks-planetarium 

Squirrel census count in Central Park

https://flowingdata.com/2020/01/09/squirrel-census-count-in-central-park/ 

Alaska’s highway of ferries is under threat — High Country News – Know the West

https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.2/transportation-in-alaska-a-highway-of-ferries-is-under-threat

Activation Exercise Reveals Challenges Facing U.S. Sealift Fleet

https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/activation-exercise-reveals-challenges-facing-u-s-sealift-fleet