This week has proven we need air conditioners more than ever, but we also need them to be better than ever. Here are some of the innovations being considered. Plus, one of the women from the secret Mercury 13 program at 1960s NASA is finally getting the chance to go to space this month. And the UAE’s Hope orbiter on Mars has picked up something scientists have never before been able to capture on the red planet.

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Links:

• How to Prevent Air Conditioners from Heating the Planet (Scientific American)
• Heat Pumps Are Ready to Have a Moment (Gizmodo)
• Nowhere Is Ready for This Heat (The Atlantic)
• Mercury 13 legend Wally Funk will ride with Jeff Bezos to the edge of space (The Verge)
• Grapevine, Texas, woman going to space with Jeff Bezos (Spectrum Local News)
• Jeff Bezos picks female aerospace pioneer to launch with him (AP)
• UAE's Hope Mars orbiter spots elusive aurora on Red Planet (Space)
• Visions of the Future posters (NASA JPL)
• Joy Generator (NPR)
• Kottke.Org
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

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