Wednesday, October 22, 2025

The lunar mining gold rush is coming – and success requires bridging two worlds
Parkinson's Discovery Suggests We May Have an FDA-Approved Treatment Already
Articles by Mark R. Whittington
Books by Mark Whittington
Bridenstine on DoD’s Cislunar Goals, CLPS, and Returning to the Moon
Renominate Jated Isaacman for NASA --- A petition
Rep. Balderson's New ARC Energy Security Act Is Smart Legislation
Depending on China for rare-earths is one of our dumbest mistakes — and must be corrected PRONTO
Canada: A Socialist Paradise Lost
JWST detects building blocks of life in ice outside the Milky Way
China Brought Something Unexpected Back From The Far Side of The Moon
Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned
Scientists Build Smallest Engine Ever, Hotter Than the Sun and Powered by Randomness
Why Trump Won in Portland
A Mamdani Mayoralty Threatens New York’s Jews

Monday, October 20, 2025

Breakthrough Vitamin K Compounds May Reverse Alzheimer’s Damage
Why did NASA’s chief just shake up the agency’s plans to land on the Moon?
Transportation Secretary Duffy says Musk’s SpaceX is behind on moon trip and he will reopen contracts

Related: America needs a ‘Plan B’ to reach the moon first

Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission Breaks Lunar Depth Record with Innovative LISTER Instrument
Seven Potential Signs of a Brain Tumor
Do Moonquakes Pose a Threat to Artemis Astronauts and their Habitats?
Racial Gerrymandering Is a Bad Idea Whose Time Has Gone
Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? #CommissionEarned
A Napoleonic Smash-and-Grab
An English City Bars Israeli Soccer Fans
You Can Now Walk the Secret Tunnel Used by Roman Emperors at the Colosseum

Sunday, October 19, 2025

If a Misogynist and Feminist Were Married (feat @NikkiHoward)

The First New Commercial Banana In 75 Years Is Coming To The Market Next Year
How NASA, SpaceX and America can still win the race to the moon

Nevertheless, the path ahead for SpaceX to develop a Starship that can get human beings on the lunar surface is daunting. The main problem is the necessity to refuel the spacecraft in low Earth orbit before sending it to lunar orbit to dock with the Orion capsule before making the final descent.

Gantz: ‘All options must be on the table’ after Hamas violated ceasefire
Nuclear Hype Is Building - TVA Plans to Buy In
No Kings: The Lunatics Are Running The Asylum
What Sasha Stone believes will save the film industry from progressive ideology
Chandrayaan-2 makes first ever observation of Sun's impact on Moon, says ISRO
Why Blue Origin will one day be bigger than Amazon
NASA Scientist Proposes Theory of Alien Civilizations Throughout Milky Way
Say Goodbye to Normal Tire, NASA’s Airless ‘Superelastic Tire’ for Personal Vehicles Soon
$20 million NASA mission to visit 'God of Chaos' asteroid saved from budget cuts in last-minute decision
Gabriella's War #CommissionEarned
The Simple Steps That Can Prevent Dementia
Gingrich: Trump Has A Real Shot At Becoming Number 3 In The Pantheon Of American Presidents
How Trump’s advent and the internet killed the media’s agenda-setting power

Friday, October 17, 2025

Walmart Still Beats Mamdani-Mart
Mark Whittington books
Mark Whittington articles
A new private moon lander rises: Impulse Space throws its hat into the lunar ring
How Ibuprofen Might Protect Against Cancer
Astrocyte Activity Linked to How Long-Term Memories Are Formed in Mice
Scientists Invent a Way to “Grow” Metal in 3D Printers — Without the Warping and Weakness
Can Science Reckon With the Human Soul?
Russia’s Weakness Is Trump’s Opportunity
A Brother on the Moon (Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington Book 1) #CommissionEarned
Patton in Palestine (Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington Book 2) #CommissionEarned
The Hamas Rule of Terror in Gaza
Allies United Against China on Rare Earths

Thursday, October 16, 2025

To the Moon (and Beyond): How Impulse Can Deliver More Mass to the Lunar Surface
We were wrong about how the moon's largest and oldest crater formed — and that's great news for NASA's next lunar landing
SpaceX Veteran Lays Out Impulse Space's Roadmap for Making Deliveries to the Moon
Moon's largest crater harbors secret on south pole where NASA astronauts will land
With Operation Warp Speed II, Trump can slash red tape — and save lives
Cassini’s Photos Revealed of Saturn’s Moon Titan as a World Like No Other
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned
Government Shutdown? No, an Efficiency Audit
Nobody Is ‘Gutting’ the Voting Rights Act
Trump’s Gaza Lessons for Ukraine

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Isaacman Grilled Over NASA Top Job With Duffy Stint Set to End
‘There was a lot of luck.’ Jared Isaacman, entrepreneur and astronaut, discusses business and space at Lehigh University
Army details plans to put nuclear reactors on 9 bases
Why are fewer young people identifying as trans?
Abraham Accords helped pave the path toward peace
The other space race: why the world is obsessed with sending objects into orbit
He’s been to space, ran NASA and can do 40 pushups at IHOP. Here’s why Bill Nelson thinks Musk must rethink his Mars plan
A Big Yale Study Says AI Had “No Discernible Effect” on the Job Market in the US
Celebrating Ada Lovelace: The World’s First Programmer Who Saw a World that Wasn’t There Yet
Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned
Racial Gerrymandering Is a Bad Idea Whose Time Has Gone
A Step Toward Peace: ‘I’m Going to Send Them Tomahawks’
A Tax-Reform Alternative to Trump’s Tariffs

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

California Schools Are About to See Waves of Children Flee After Gavin Newsom's 'Demonic' 'Kidnap' Bill
Artemis II will decide whether NASA’s return to the Moon has a future
Zelenskyy and Trump talk amid possible Tomahawk delivery
SpaceX finally got exactly what it needed from Starship V2
Trio win Nobel economics prize for work on innovation, growth and 'creative destruction'
The Bacterium That Keeps Your Gut Healthy Just Survived a Trip to Space and That’s Good News For Astronauts
Technology Is Your Friend
Diane Keaton Packed a Wallop
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned
Jay Jones’s Violent Texts Scramble Virginia Governor’s Race
Trump’s Hostage Triumph in Jerusalem
A Supreme Court Reckoning for Racial Gerrymanders

Monday, October 13, 2025

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Against All Odds, Hostage Square Has Now Been Renamed Freed Square
I discuss the Artemis program and the new race to the moon on the John Batchelor podcast
Could We Really Turn Mars Green?
Einstein's relativity could rewrite a major rule about what types of planets are habitable
We Finally Have a Good Shot to Defeat HIV Globally
Having a cat literally changes your brain (and the cat’s)
Trump’s War Drums in Venezuela
Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? #Commission
The Middle East’s Yalta Moment
Can Cuomo Beat Mamdani?
China Rounds Up Christian Pastors

Sunday, October 12, 2025

Articles by Mark R. Whittington
Booka by Mark R. Whittington
Is NASA losing the moon race? All eyes are on the megarocket launching Monday for answers
The US can jumpstart the search for life on this moon of Saturn

With the recent discovery of traces of what may or may not be or have been life on Mars, eyes are turning to another world in the solar system which might harbor extraterrestrial life. Old data from the Cassini probe suggests that Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus should be of interest for astrobiologists.

Trump has dealt a devastating blow to Israelophobia
Trump set to fly to Israel to mark historic peace deal while preparing public for grim hostage release
'Go to Hell': Hamas Spox Gets Touchy As Accountability Looms in Arab World
“We Need To Go Back” – Uranus’ Moon May Have Harbored a Colossal 100-Mile Deep Ocean
There’s Something Really Strange About the Moon’s Largest Crater, Where NASA Astronauts Are Due to Land

Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977) - La-di-da, la-di-da, la la [sub. español]

RIP Diane Keaton

What time is SpaceX's Starship Flight 11 launch on Oct. 13? How to watch it live
NASA to Pack Astronauts Onto a Chip in The Name of Space Health
Gabriella's War #CommissionEarned
Putin OKs plan to turn Russian spacecraft into flying billboards
Joe Biden Undergoing Radiation Treatment Amid Prostate Cancer Battle
Zohran Mamdani Chased Out Of NYC Park By Protester Slamming Him As An ‘Antisemite’

Friday, October 10, 2025

Venezuela's 'Iron Lady' Dedicates Nobel Prize to Trump As Maduro's Death Rattle Gets Louder
Why it’s inevitable that Elon Musk will be a trillionaire
Is Canada Becoming the Center of Organ Harvesting Tourism?
SpaceX moves giant Super Heavy booster to pad ahead of Starship Flight 11 launch
Protecting NASA funding ensures breakthroughs in space science and benefits in daily life continue
Blue Origin working toward launch of NASA’s Mars mission
Scientists Engineer ‘Super-Adjuvant’ Nanoparticle Vaccine That Prevents Cancer in Mice
Britain’s Conservative Party Finally Has Some Good Ideas
A Brother on the Moon (Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington Book 1) #CommissionEarned
Patton in Palestine (Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington Book 2) #CommissionEarned
Ukraine Is Starving Russia of Oil
The Lessons of Trump’s Gaza Peace Deal
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 to Maria Corina Machado Not Trump

Thursday, October 09, 2025

As Spock would say fascinating: Trump meets with Jared Isaacman about top NASA job after pulling nomination
Cabinet spontaneously applauds as Trump signs Columbus Day proclamation: 'We're back, Italians'
The case for Trump winning a Nobel Peace Prize
AI Will Unearth the Extraordinary Within Us
With new analysis, Apollo samples brought to Earth in 1972 reveal exotic sulfur hidden in Moon’s mantle
South Texas students have a new chance to taste the race for space
Trump says Israel and Hamas finalize Gaza peace deal
How to Pronounce Uranus Without Blushing
Free Gaza’s Palestinians from Hamas
Fiddler on the Moon: Film Explores the Future of Judaism in Space
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned
AI and the Fountain of Youth
Immigrants and American Nobel Prizes
More Marijuana Users Are Crash Dummies

Wednesday, October 08, 2025

Actually, we are going to tell you the odds of recovering New Glenn’s second launch
From Socialism to Start-Up Nation: Netanyahu’s Capitalist Revolution in Israel
Articles by Mark R. Whittington
Books by Mark R. Whittington
Amid cuts, uncertainty, Sean Duffy, the acting NASA Administrator, focuses on the future of space travel
How China Is preparing to dominate the world
Printable aluminum alloy sets strength records, may enable lighter aircraft parts
This AI “Actress” Is Being Called the Next Scarlett Johansson But Hollywood is Freaking Out
Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned
The Vulnerability of a Divided Nation
The Oct. 7 Warning for the U.S. on China
The Politics of ObamaCare Subsidies

Tuesday, October 07, 2025

Today is October 7, the second anniversary of the most horrendous mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. Here follows my wishes to all concerned.

To the Israelis, I wish victory and peace and an end to the killing and the dying. Also, some well-deserved respect in the world for facing down the human demons who threaten their very existence.

To the Palestinians, I also wish an end to the killing and the dying. Also, a realization that God, whom they call the merciful and the compassionate, expects mercy and compassion from his worshipers and is very angry when this doesn’t happen.

Finally, to the keyboard jihadis, the Greta groupies, and the marching antisemites, a little self-awareness and the realization that they are not on the right side of history or morality.

The AI Genetics Revolution Is Coming
Removing these 50 objects from orbit would cut danger from space junk in half
Nuclear Power Is Having a Major Comeback and Big Tech is Driving It
Scientists Built a Device That Sucks Carbon From the Sea and Makes Plastic
AI on the Front Lines: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reinventing Battlefield Medicine in Ukraine
What If Life Is Just Another Kind of Computer?
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned
America’s Debt to Israel
Has Japan Found Its Margaret Thatcher?
The AI Arms Race Gets Even Hotter

Monday, October 06, 2025

Wesley Hunt launches Senate bid, scrambling GOP primary in Texas

Related: Elon Musk and Wesley Hunt have an inspired idea to fix Houston’s flooding problem

Also: Congressional candidate Wesley Hunt on NASA and the Space Force

Egypt reopens Amenhotep III’s tomb after over 20 years of renovation
Bill Nye leads charge to save NASA science from deep Trump cuts
5 Nobel-worthy scientific advances that haven’t won the prize
Democrats’ working-class hole, Zohran vs. NYC freelancers and other commentary
The Surprising Link Between Vaccines and Dementia
The Next Prosecution of Donald Trump
Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? #CommissionEarned
Gifted, Talented and Zohran Mamdani
‘All Hostages First’ Is the Key in Gaza
‘Conversion Therapy’ at the High Court

Sunday, October 05, 2025

New DARPA 'field guide' looks for ways to jump-start a moon economy
In 4 months, Canadian Jeremy Hansen will blast off to the moon — where he'll also be a human guinea pig
NASA’s mission around the moon now has a name and a date

Recently, the Artemis II astronauts — Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen — held a press conference about their upcoming circumlunar mission. Wiseman, Glover and Koch are NASA veterans. Hansen is a Canadian astronaut for whom Artemis II is his first space flight.

The press conference had two main takeaways: Artemis II has a name and a date.

OverDrive for Library Books
Senator Kennedy Found Some Wild Stuff Dems Want Back in the Budget
Trump: 'Hamas Must Move Quickly, or Else...'
Astronaut Traveling to Moon Next Year Says He’s Hoping to Take a “Short Nap” on the Launch Pad
Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel (The Gabriella Doria Stories) #CommissionEarned
Cuomo Blasts Zohran Mamdami For Being Wealthy Landowner While Pushing For Abolition Of Private Property
How NASA plans to build a lunar base, from roads to habitats
Human Genome Project

Friday, October 03, 2025

How Jimmy Carter Led To Jonestown - Razör Cuts

Real Mann of Science™ Quits His Job
AI will likely delete these four jobs — is yours one of them?
Living longer — and healthier — starts with boosting your brain
What to know about the attack at a synagogue in England on Yom Kippur
People living in Antarctica are developing a new accent
A Brother on the Moon (Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington Book 1) #CommissionEarned
Patton in Palestine (Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington Book 2) #CommissionEarned
Ukraine at the Rubicon
Why Not Let Ukraine Hit Moscow?
Europe’s New War on the Jews

Thursday, October 02, 2025

How America fell behind China in the lunar space race—and how it can catch back up
Elon Musk’s Next Big Project Could Be a Game Changer
This Cheap, Tiny Device May Reverse Memory Loss—And Even Prevent Alzheimer’s, Scientists Say
NASA employees on Artemis missions with SpaceX, Blue Origin to work through shutdown
The Future Is Bright for U.S. LNG
Who is Richard Frye, the neurologist who researches and advocates for leucovorin as an autism treatment?
US takes a stake in another company, this one is operating a massive lithium mine in Nevada
Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Is Looking More Habitable Than Ever

Crash And Burn - The Emma Watson Story

Private mission study a step toward offering Orion as a service
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned
Can Democrats Break Free of the Left?
Democrats Need an Education Reset
America’s Pharmacist in Chief

Wednesday, October 01, 2025

In their own words: The Artemis II crew on the frenetic first hours of their flight
Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Has Complex, Life-Friendly Chemistry
Scientists make huge Parkinson's breakthrough as they discover 'protein trigger' which causes disease
Articles by Mark R. Whittington
Books by Mark R. Whittington
Mining the moon: Can you make money harvesting helium-3?
SpaceX targeting Oct. 13 for next Starship megarocket launch
Nuclear energy powering AI is a 'national security issue': Expert
Chuck Schumer Has No Leverage In The Shutdown Showdown
This is how America will achieve energy dominance
One side of the Moon might be colder than the other
Inside Zap: Fusion pioneer tries to build ‘a star in a jar’ to unlock abundant clean energy
Blue Origin and Luxembourg Partner on Oasis-1 Mission to Map Lunar Resources
Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned
The Trump Deal for Israel and Gaza
Pete Hegseth and the Generals
The Government Shutdown Stakes for the GOP