Tuesday, July 07, 2026

Blue Origin continues work on lunar landers during recovery from New Glenn explosion
SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell to donate stock to Trump Accounts
Nuclear in my backyard: A Nebraska utility is skirting the public backlash that plagues wind and solar
'Acceleration without fuel:' Revolutionary superconducting thruster harnesses Earth's magnetic field in 1st orbital test
The Square Kilometre Array Will Revolutionize the Hunt for Alien Life
How Rocky's Models Were Made for Project Hail Mary
Discovery helps explain why solid-state batteries often fail
A Nearby “Super-Earth” May Be More Habitable Than Astronomers Thought
A Nobel Winning Chemist Is Trying to Pull Drinking Water from Desert Air
Millions of Old EV Batteries Could Get a Second Life Helping Power The Grid
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned
Socialism: Still Failing
Can AI Repair the Broken Modern State?
A Conservative Court, but No Monolith

Monday, July 06, 2026

There were not one, but two asteroid encounters this weekend
Tianwen-2 arrives at asteroid Kamo’oalewa, first image revealed
NASA will have to find a way to service its new alien-hunting space telescope
NASA will have to find a way to service its new alien-hunting space telescope
Bomb the Arctic, dam the Mediterranean and build a second moon: five outlandish plans to remodel our climate
NASA wants to light the first fire on the moon. Here's why
NASA administrator says "we are very much in a space race right now" against China
NASA and Small Business Administration partner on funding key space technologies
Climate establishment officially retires extreme scenario
Bet on the builders to power America’s next 250 years
Experts ranked 400 jobs by their dementia risk – and were stunned what came out on top
First Impressions of Houston, TEXAS 🇺🇸 (BUC-EE'S Blew Our Minds)
Prime Rib For Breakfast on Our First Day in Houston 🇺🇸
NASA’s Webb Studies How Planet Survived Death of its Star
Anthropic Wants to Make Its Own Drugs With Help from Claude
Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned
Titan, Saturn’s Largest Moon, Could Become a ‘Gas Station’ for Deep Space Missions
After 700 Years Underwater Divers Recovered 80-Ton Blocks from the Long-Lost Lighthouse of Alexandria
Evanston’s Race Reparations in the Dock

Sunday, July 05, 2026

Space travel’s heavyweights ponder a future with antimatter rockets

Recently, two of the powerful men on the planet where space policy is concerned had an exchange on the social media platform X about antimatter. The exchange is another example of how what was once science fiction is becoming reality.

Artemis II astronauts share touching story in never-before-seen video
Trump floats intriguing Elon Musk, SpaceX plan
NASA tested a nuclear rocket engine dozens of times in the 1960s, proved it could work, then shelved it before it ever flew — and now the same basic idea is being revived because it could make the trip to Mars far shorter than chemical rockets allow.
Trump's Mount Rushmore Speech Outrages the Media Like Nothing Since the Days of Reagan
Gabriella's War #CommissionEarned
Trump touts American exceptionalism and condemns communism in July 4 speech
Will the socialist revolution come for Kamala Harris?
Canada’s Jew-hatred problem

Friday, July 03, 2026

Happy 250th birthday, America!
Mamdani Gives 250th Anniversary Speech, and Boy, Does This Guy Hate America
Newsom’s wealth tax: Target Musk and Bezos, hand the moon to China

Recently, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) proposed a national wealth tax. The idea is that it is a bad thing that a few billionaires (and one trillionaire) possess all of those riches that they acquired by building things and providing needed services. So, Newsom took to X (owned by Elon Musk, one of his targets) and proposed that a certain percentage (unspecified) of rich people’s wealth should be seized by the government every year.

Yes, Europe’s heat waves are deadlier than American gun violence
Europe’s Deadly Aversion to Air Conditioning
Russia’s economy is ‘sputtering,’ and Putin’s wartime spending model has pushed the country to an ‘economic, political, and military abyss’
Elon Musk is in the rabid left’s crosshairs — but he’s not the true target
Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe
Scientists Turned Human Cells into Tiny Biological Computers
South Korea to Launch Lunar Lander by 2030, Target 70 Trillion Aerospace Industry
You Can Dream While You’re Still Awake and Scientists Finally Saw It Happen
America’s Earnestness Is Even Cooler Than Air Conditioning
Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington (3 book series) #CommissionEarned
AI and the English Language
The Socialist Threat Is Real
The Great ObamaCare Escape

Thursday, July 02, 2026

New Water-Harvesting Jacket Pulls up to 30 Ounces of Drinking Water From the Air Daily
Short sellers boost bets against SpaceX and it's already costing them
Don't Worry, The U.S. Is Not Going the Way of Socialism
NASA inspector general suggests Boeing’s Starliner will now be a decade late
Thank You, Judith Curry
Blood test spots hidden pancreatic cancer after treatment
This Jellyfish Can Heal Wounds in Minutes Without Scars and Scientists Think They’ve Found Its Secret
Are frozen and canned vegetables as good as the fresh ones? Here’s what you need to know
The AI Race Pushes India Toward the West
NASA chief praises progress Blue Origin is making after launch failure
New Nonsurgical Knee Treatment Delivers Lasting Pain Relief
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned
Me, Myself and AI
Abraham Lincoln Remade the Fourth of July
The Military Danger of the Anti-Israel Panic

Wednesday, July 01, 2026

Majority of Russians Think the Economy is Getting Worse
Rice grown on the moon? Air-to-fertilizer technology helps rice grow in lunar soil simulant
NASA Awards More Moon Base Science, Previews New Opportunities
Nasa says Blue Origin remains its ‘plan A’ for Moon return despite rocket explosion
NASA Is Making a Fifth State of Matter in Orbit
NASA may send a backup, nuclear-powered Mars rover to the Moon
NASA audit puts Boeing's Starliner under an even bigger microscope: When will it fly astronauts again?
Contra Jennifer Harris, the Force Hollowing Out the Economy Isn't AI
Lab-Grown Retinal Cells Show Promise for New Eye Therapies
Tesla starts testing Cybercab without pedals or a steering wheel in Austin
A Divided Country Celebrates Its Anniversary—Again
The Founders Wouldn’t Back a ‘Billionaire Tax’
The ‘Christian’ Putin’s Alliance With the Taliban
Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned
Women’s Sports Win at the Supreme Court
Political Speech Wins Again at the Supreme Court
Blaming U.S. Air Conditioning for French Weather

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.