Tuesday, June 30, 2026

'Titan is actually a very reasonable destination for humans': Scientists start mapping out crewed mission to huge Saturn moon
Robotic Servicing Spacecraft Will Soon Blast into Orbit, to Try to Save a 1.5-Ton NASA Satellite From Reentry
What Laws Have to Do With It: Thirty Years of Lessons on What Makes Charter Schools Thrive
America’s economic engine is outperforming this century’s expectations — whether the Dems like it or not
Are We Afraid of Aliens, or Are We Afraid of Ourselves?
Study Reveals How Leukemia Cells Enter and Damage Lungs
Scientists say Earth Impacts May Have Delivered Microbes to the Clouds of Venus
Hundreds of Thousands of Chickens Die as France Suffers Its Hottest Day on Record
The Communism Debate at CNN
What Real Diversity Looks Like
Public Interest in Space: Revealing New Survey
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned
The Russian Reckoning
Air Conditioning, Scourge of the French Left
Rubio Holds the Line on Hezbollah

Monday, June 29, 2026

NASA Identifies More Than 40 Space Technologies for Collaboration
Rocket Lab to acquire Iridium
NASA Launches Daring Mission to Save Telescope
Energy Abundance Key To Our National Security
Even Einstein Admitted He Was Wrong. We Apparently Can’t Expect as Much From Al Gore.
Could future astronauts use oysters as water filters? Here's why one company thinks so
What capitalism will look like in space
Newly Discovered Notebook Written By 22-Year-Old Mozart Contains New Music And Shows How He Taught A Young Harpist
NASA Rover Finds Most Complex Organic Chemistry Ever Detected on Mars. But Can It Reveal Whether Life Ever Existed There?
Why Being ‘Progressive’ Is No Longer Enough on the Left
Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned
Graham Platner and the David Duke Precedent
Only a Few Democrats Fight Back Against the Socialists
The Socialist Wave, West Coast Version

Sunday, June 28, 2026

Intuitive Machines posts record revenue and $1.1B backlog amid lunar economy surge post-SpaceX IPO
Israel moves to formally recognize Armenian WWI deaths as a genocide

This would have put my old Middle East studies professor in a bit of a quandry. On the one hand, he was no fan of the State of Israel. On the other hand, he suffered professionally at the hands of the Turkish governmemt for pointing out the Armenian Holocaust.

Before Donald Quataert annoyed the Turkish government, he was my Middle Eastern studies professor

Scientists mull controversial plan to steer hurricanes
NASA extends its commercial partnerships to Mars

Recently, NASA extended the idea of private-public partnerships to Mars. The space agency has struck a deal with Relativity Space to send an orbital probe to the Red Planet, with a launch date no earlier than 2028.

Tit-for-Tat in Strait of Hormuz; UPDATE: Iran Attacks Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraqi Government Upheaval
SpaceX stock has cooled. Hiring for jobs in the space economy hasn’t
In a First, a Scientist Regrew a Human Lung in a Bioreactor. Is This the Dawn of Rebuilding Humans Piece by Piece?
Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned
NASA awards, ‘unicorns’ and the biggest IPO ever: A new commercial space boom is underway
NASA used a drone to deliver a human kidney. Is this the future of transplant transport?
I Co-Founded Wikipedia. Now I’m Banned for Life.

Saturday, June 27, 2026

Mark R, Whittington articles
Mark R. Whittington books
Next-gen astronaut Moon rovers aim for deployment ahead of Artemis 4 crew arrival
NASA Moon Base Could Become Earth’s First Defense Against Alien Microbes
NASA is paying $30 million for a 1st-of-its-kind rescue mission to the aging Swift telescope before it falls from space. Is it worth it?
Doctors suspected man had brain cancer. He actually had worms.
Cognition Therapeutics plans Phase 3 trial after drug slows dementia psychosis by 89%
Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned
Join A First Mover in AI Robotics Who's Unlocking Mass-Market Growth
A Senate Advance on Cheaper Weapons
All of Gavin Newsom’s Donors

Friday, June 26, 2026

The Cruelty in Government-Run Medicine
Report to Congress on Returning Humans to the Moon
SpaceX plans to build 'Starpipe' natural gas pipeline to fuel Starship rockets
NASA’s Swift Boost mission readies for launch
How NASA Taught Four Astronauts to Read the Moon
Iran Didn’t Win the War
China’s Private Space Industry Must Not Be Underestimated
'A huge step forward': This strange Antarctic creature could spark a cancer breakthrough, say scientists
A Response to the Opponents of Space-Based Interceptors in Golden Dome
The US and China are planning Moon bases. It could help improve life on Earth
Astronomers find 2 gigantic planets lighter than cotton candy: "Comparable to a nice blob of shaving foam"
What Happens When You Throw a Paper Plane From Space? These Physicists Found Out
The Tartan Army Takes America
Britain’s Prime Minister Problem
A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned
Patton in Palestine #CommissionEarned
The further adventures of Anne Frank: An alternate history of a life uninterrupted #CommissionEarned
No Air Conditioning, Please, We’re French
Democrats Just Say No to the Military
SpaceX employees got rich off stock options. Ex-Blue Origin workers say theirs are worthless.

Thursday, June 25, 2026

How Do We Balance the Federal Budget?
Firefly Aerospace Acquires Space-ng to Advance Future of Autonomous Space Operations
Vast signs additional partners for commercial space station microgravity research
The lunar botanist with a plan to farm vegetables on the moon
Civil rights, moon landings and war wins: What Americans see as the country’s greatest achievements
Canceled NASA exploration projects suffered billions of dollars in overruns
Socialism: On The March, Or Not So Much?
Republicans hang on
AI Is Now Drilling for Oil, and the Profits Are Enormous
Were Vikings Really ‘Uncivilized’ Barbarians? Large Textile-Production Site Discovered in Denmark Challenges That Stereotype
Nasa rover detects potential signatures of ancient microbial life on Mars
What really causes autism? We're about to find out
Cytonics begins Phase I trial of new therapy to treat knee osteoarthritis
Gut punch: New study knocks out norovirus where it strikes
Ukraine’s New Air-Power Paradigm
A Counterfactual Social Security History
Hope for spinal injuries as pigs walk again after experimental gel treatment for severed spinal cords
Putin’s reign may not survive the impending fall of Crimea
Washington should spend Iran’s frozen billions on satellite internet for its people
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned
The Socialist Democrats of America
Vesuvius Eruption Turned This Roman Man’s Brain Into Glass 2,000 Years Ago. Scientists Now Know How It Happened
A Woman With Advanced Alzheimer’s Took Magic Mushrooms and Started Speaking Again

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Scientists begin first trial to reverse human aging
SpaceX launches secretive Starfall reentry demo mission
Here’s what can come next with climate-change fever finally breaking
Why Quantum Space chose the SPAC route to go public
Researchers Develop Promising New Therapy for Most Common Form of Bone Cancer in Children and Young Adults
Space Force May Need Presence on Moon, Paper Argues
NASA, Boeing committed to Starliner-1 launch despite unclear timeline
Data Centers Start to Drive Residential Electricity Bills Down
SpaceX and NASA leaders hail antimatter propulsion rockets for journeys beyond Mars
China’s Mysterious Spaceplane Releases Unidentified Object in Orbit
Discovery of severe pneumonia subtypes could lead to tailored treatments for life-threating disease
James Webb Spots the Same Mystery Chemical Fingerprint on Titan and Pluto
The World’s 10 Most ‘Cursed’ Places: A Guide to Dangerous Destinations
Everyone vs. Superintelligence?
Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again)
Scott Bessent: Hamilton Inspires Trump’s Economic Statecraft
Tim Sheehy Explains Iran
Zohran Mamdani, Slumlord

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Interstellar comet is unlike anything seen in our Solar System
Trump executive order directs NASA to plan quantum space applications
UFO Update: NASA Astronaut Reveals Planned Test for Extraterrestrial Life
Trump Must Condition Iran Aid to Economic Freedom
Elon Musk’s SpaceX success shows how he’s sharing the wealth, not playing Monopoly
A US military exercise in space got underway with barely anyone noticing
Stuttering Is in the Genes
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond #CommissionEarned
AI Needs Public Quality Testing
Do Bible Passages Belong in English Class?
Chuck Schumer’s Chip Shortage

Monday, June 22, 2026

The Future of Nuclear Energy
Obama’s Hideous Monument to Hubris
SpaceX Is the Opening Chapter In a Powerful Industrial Revolution
Earthlings on Europa? Provocative Study Explores ‘Reverse Panspermia’ Scenario Where Earth Life May Have Invaded an Alien Moon
Artificial Intelligence Is Still Quite 'Dumb'
This Three-Armed Robot Can Slice-and-Dice Salmon Into Sashimi
Live Free and Prosper
AI Is a Boon to Ambitious Recent Grads
Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned
Victory Over Iran Is Still Possible
Britain’s Great Labour Hope for Change?
Colombia Joins the Latin Right Turn