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