This Day in Alaska History-January 10th, 1882
Image: Joe Juneau, gold prospector and co-founder of Juneau. Image-Public Domain
Facebook to Rename Itself ‘Meta’
Facebook announced Thursday it was changing its name to Meta, rechristening itself as a digitally innovative company moving beyond 2D screens even as insider revelations paint the tech giant as apathetic toward hate speech, misinformation and mental health. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during Thursday’s livestreamed augmented reality and virtual reality (VR) conference […]
Name-Alutiiq Word of the Week-May 9th
ATEQ – NAME GUI ATQA SOPHIE. – MY NAME IS SOPHIE. In classical Alutiiq society, children were often named for a beloved and recently deceased relative. Before birth, a child’s father would choose two such names, one for a boy and one for a girl. The child was not thought to resemble its namesake or […]
Alaskan a Finalist in National Competition to Name Star, Exo-Planet
Vote for Adajar’s proposal at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd6x2cVVj3ECVrFOvhW0B4QnYz1ynAC6a42VI935npG5ZieRg/viewform DILLINGHAM, ALASKA – An Alaskan, Ivory Adajar of Dillingham, Alaska was recently named a finalist in a national competition by The International Astronomical Union (IAU) to name an intergalactic star and exo-planet. Voting to advance the proposal is open to the public until November 14, 2019. Adajar has proposed the […]