Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Maryland congressmen vow to block proposed NASA science budget cuts
The Tao of AOC and Space Vixens
Should we settle Mars, or is it a dumb idea for humans to live off world?
Do classic science fiction movies undermine understanding of science?
Wearable AI system helps blind people navigate
Scientists just made butter from air — and it’s hitting the market
The largest flood in Earth’s history burst through Gibraltar and Sicily and refilled the entire Mediterranean in just a few years
Every Marine A Drone Pilot: Individual Lethality To Go From Meters To Kilometers
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned
A Young Scott Bessent Brought Order From Economic Chaos
Reflections on Lincoln 160 Years After His Murder
The Moral Case for Reforming Medicaid

Sunday, April 13, 2025

My latest appearance on Dr. David Livingston's The Space Show podcast where we discussed the space related news of the day, including potential NASA budget cuts, Jared Isaacman's confirmation hearings, Elon Musk, going to Mars vs returning to the moon, the Boeing Starliner woes, among other topics.
A Scientist Has an Explosive Plan to Terraform Mars. It's So Wild That It Might Just Work.
Post-DEI, who will be the next Americans to walk on the moon?
What will NASA do about Boeing’s problem-plagued Starliner?
Commercial space companies are ready for the next stage of lunar exploration

Recently, some of the players in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program met with the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, part of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. The witnesses included representatives from NASA administration, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Astrobotic Technology, Intuitive Machines and Firefly Aerospace.

NASA nominee should resist Musk’s pull toward Mars
ISS Astronaut Scott Kelly Sees Jared Isaacman Triumph In Heading NASA
Breaking the Gender Barrier May Be New For Space Tourism, But Not For NASA Missions
From 'Kaputnik' to Moonwalk: America's Space Race Victory
First-of-its-kind AI-powered tech captures carbon using heat from data centers
The Gabriella Doria Stories (3 book series) #CommissionEarned
NASA Administrator Nominee Wants More Flagship Science Missions
White House Reportedly Directs NIH To Study ‘Detransition,’ Trans ‘Regret’
Bill Maher Says His Dinner With Trump Showed ‘Why The Democrats Are So Unpopular’

Saturday, April 12, 2025

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

Mr. Maher Goes to Washington | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

NASA axes ex-DEI chief after giving her new job title in apparent effort to evade Trump crackdown: report
Musk calls Trump’s looming NASA cuts ‘troubling’
To Secure a Free and Open Future, America Must Win the AI Race
Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA
Calorie Restriction and Calorie Restriction Mimetic Drugs Restore More Youthful Lipid Metabolism
Navy SEAL. Harvard Doctor. NASA Astronaut. Don’t Tell Mom About This Overachiever.
Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned
Meet the crew for Blue Origin's upcoming all-female spaceflight with Katy Perry
She Wrote the Book on Government Efficiency
Trump’s Tariffs Are Unique in History
Trump Liberates America’s Shower Heads

Friday, April 11, 2025

Tiny sun-powered tech turns seawater into hydrogen fuel and drinking water
I will be on The Space Show podcast with David Livingston this Sunday. I wonder what we'll talk about.
'Mississippi Miracle:' How a Deep South State Has Dramatically Improved Education and Student Performance
24 hrs to 15 mins: Scientists turn CO2 pollution into fuel at record speed
Trump’s Nasa nominee Isaacman faces Senate as US pushes to return to Moon before China
Trump will ‘work with farmers’ to return deported migrants legally
Lunar Outpost unveils sleek new 'Eagle' moon rover
NASA offers $3M for invention to recycle 96 bags of astronaut poop left on the moon
Trump is ending Biden’s war on energy and one state is key to that strategy
Why Trump decided to take the win and paused tariff war
Rocket Lab sees demand for Electron despite rideshare competition
Parkinson’s disease researchers develop cellular ‘invisibility cloak’ to protect neural grafts
Researchers can’t rule out the possibility of life existing on Titan
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
I Kept My Freedom in Hamas’s Captivity
Will Trump Use Force to Stop Iran’s Nuclear Development?
Breaking: House GOP Decides to Govern

Wednesday, April 09, 2025

Trump pauses tariffs for 90 days on dozens of countries, raises rate on China to 125%
NASA Welcomes Bangladesh as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory
Space nuclear power poised for breakthroughs — if NASA and DoD stay committed
There's an Update on Tariff Negotiations
Trump’s Nasa nominee Isaacman faces Senate as US pushes to return to Moon before China
Intuitive Machines Selects SpaceX to Launch its Fourth Lunar Lander Mission and Lunar Data Relay Satellites
Mars Is the Priority, Trump’s Pick to Lead NASA Will Say
US federal agencies to 'unleash' coal energy after Biden 'stifled' it: 'Mine, Baby, Mine'
'The Bottomless Well' at 20: Is Energy on Earth Still 'Infinite'?
Scientists Develop “Smart Bomb” That Eradicates Breast Cancer With Minimal Side Effects
Trump Must Deregulate U.S. Energy to Unleash AI Dominance
Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned
The House GOP’s Latest Suicide Test
New Wearable Brain-Computer Interface
Renewable energy hits 32% of global electricity in 2024, states Ember report