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Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

 
Ludolph van Ceulen Memorial in Leiden, Netherlands
Pi is an irrational number with an infinite amount of decimals. While 3.14 is good enough for high school students and most engineers often use 4.0 just to be sure, there are actually a lot of uses for the rest of the decimals, primarily in cryptography. These days we know pi down to tens of trillions of decimals, but not too long ago calculating a few dozen could literally take a lifetime.  Many people in history spent years of...

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Tanglin Hill Brunei Hostel in Singapore
The Tanglin Brunei Hostel or Asrama Kerajaan Brunei di Singapura (AKBS), although largely unknown even to most locals, has a rich history as a residence for Bruneian students studying in Singapore. The hostel, now in a dilapidated state, was built in 1958 to accommodate the increasing number of students from Brunei that were sent for schooling abroad. This was common in the 1950s as Brunei was facing economic struggles and difficulties in setting up its own former education system....

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How Milwaukee Is Celebrating the Typewriter’s Long,...
The Milwaukee folk punk band Nineteen Thirteen has showcased the talents of various musicians over the years, from cellist Janet Schiff to drummer Victor DeLorenzo, a founding member of the chart-topping, Milwaukee-based Violent Femmes. Recently, though, the band featured a guest musician playing a lesser-known instrument—the typewriter. “This was my first time playing the typewriter as a musical instrument, but hopefully not the last,” says poet Monica Thomas, who provided backup to Renee Bebeau’s percussion while typing a local...

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Sofi Hamid in Qobustan, Azerbaijan
Camels, samovars, sewing machines, prayer beads, guns, cars, snakes, camels and fruits. What do these have in common? Fifty kilometers from Baku, hidden from the public eye, lies a mysterious place called Sofi Hamid. And this is the place where you will see all kinds of images from nature and daily life. If you would land there by helicopter, you would wonder: who was buried here? What do those symbols, images, and bright colors mean? Adding to this confusion,...

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Spot the ISS and Other Satellites in...
Atlas Obscura’s Wondersky columnist Rebecca Boyle is an award-winning science journalist and author of the upcoming Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are (January 2024, Random House). Throughout the summer, she’ll be sharing the stories and secrets of our wondrous night sky. Sitting outside late at night, even after most people are asleep, provides a sense of togetherness like few other things I know. I have never been lonely...

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Why Are There Three Twilights?
When the sun slides out of sight—or, more accurately, when Earth rotates so that your particular place on the planet is no longer exposed to our day star—but before darkness consumes the landscape, there is the magical, muted time of twilight. The word comes to us from the Old English twyelyghte, or half-light, when the vivid colors of the day fade to a shadow palette of grays. Of course, the colors don’t change, but our ability to discern them...

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Wildfire Smoke Changes Orangutan Calls in Borneo
This story was originally published on The Conversation and appears here under a Creative Commons license. Bornean orangutans are one of three orangutan species, all critically endangered. They thrive in carbon-rich peat swamp forests on the Indonesian island of Borneo. These habitats are also the sites of massive wildfires. Indonesian wildfires in 2015 caused some of the worst fire-driven air pollution ever recorded. The fires were driven by an El Niño climatic cycle, which caused especially dry weather in...

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Podcast: Witches and Ritual Around the Globe
Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this special partner episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, with Condé Nast Traveler‘s Women Who Travel Podcast, we visit Mexico to hear about the country’s long history of female healers and explore Denmark‘s brutal history of witch burnings. For more from Women Who Travel, visit their website Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In under 15 minutes, we’ll...

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Mythbusters: Revenue Management Technology
Do you run a smaller hotel or B&B that uses only manual processes to manage all your reservations, pricing, and inventory allocation? Have you avoided implementing technology to help support your internal operations because you worried that the solutions would cause more problems than they would solve? If so, then this article is for you! The post Mythbusters: Revenue Management Technology appeared first on Revfine.com.

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A/B Testing: The Secret to Success on...
Digital marketers should never underestimate the power of testing. It is invaluable for understanding diverse audiences and determining what changes can result in the best online performance. The Importance of A/B Testing When it comes to a hotel website, each and every adjustment made to the booking engine, ads, CTAs, landing page, and even images The post A/B Testing: The Secret to Success on Your Hotel Website appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Marketing to Millennial Travelers: 5 Strategies for...
Marketing to millennial travelers has become a top priority for many hotels and resorts. The generation travels at higher rates than any other, but considering their unique shopping behaviors and expectations is a must. Here are five tips for successfully marketing to millennial travelers. Marketing to Millennial Generation Millennials are maturing. The oldest generation is The post Marketing to Millennial Travelers: 5 Strategies for Hotels in 2023 & Beyond appeared first on Revfine.com.

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4 New Technologies To Help Increase F&B...
In modern hotels, generating income goes beyond room rates and prime locations. While these factors are undoubtedly important, a realm of untapped potential can significantly boost profitability: food and drinks revenue, also known as F&B. 4 New Technologies to Increase F&B Revenue By focusing on this dynamic aspect, hotels can maximize their earnings, even without The post 4 New Technologies To Help Increase F&B Revenue appeared first on Revfine.com.

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9 Audiences You Can Create for Better...
The marketing department in a hotel has a crucial role in increasing revenue. Not only has to do with creating initiatives to attract new guests but also with communicating with previous guests and making them come back. The Task of Increasing Revenue Increasing revenue is hard in an industry with many brands competing for the The post 9 Audiences You Can Create for Better Hotel Marketing Campaigns appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Hotel Companies: List of 10 Biggest Worldwide...
Hotel companies come in all sizes, from those with just a handful of properties to huge global organizations with hundreds of hotels. These companies offer some great opportunities for people at all levels of the industry, from hotel owners to those looking for entry-level work in hospitality. In this article, you’ll discover 10 of the The post Hotel Companies: List of 10 Biggest Worldwide Hotel Company Examples appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Hotel Market Segmentation: Effective Tips & Strategies...
Hotels want to attract as many guests as possible to maximize revenue. One of the best ways to achieve this is to segment the hotel market so that different groups of people can be targeted with different marketing messages, pricing strategies, and services. In this article, you will learn some hotel market segmentation tips and The post Hotel Market Segmentation: Effective Tips & Strategies for Hoteliers appeared first on Revfine.com.

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