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Why Is America Going Back to the Moon

Why Is America Going Back to the Moon

Why does American want to return to the moon? Is it science? Is it riches? Is it glory? Or, perhaps, it is a combination of the three.

2021

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Nuclear power may be coming to the Permian Basin

Nuclear power is not usually mentioned in the same sentence as fossil fuels. However, a recent nonbinding letter of intent between Oklo…

3 min readMay 1, 2024

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What the Arch of Titus teaches us about what to do with Confederate statues

For some reason, the Civil War has broken out all over again in the 21st century, almost 160 years after the Confederacy surrendered. Civil…

5 min readJul 30, 2023

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What the Arch of Titus teaches us about what to do with Confederate statues

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How I would have done ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’

By now, all the world knows that the fifth and final film in the Indiana Jones franchise, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” is an…

3 min readJul 9, 2023

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Mad Men’s Don Draper weighs in on woke beer

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, all I know about advertising comes from watching old episodes of Mad Men. So, just as I imagined…

3 min readMay 16, 2023

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Mad Men’s Don Draper weighs in on woke beer

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Besides “For All Mankind” what other books depict an alternate space program?

For All Mankind is a critically acclaimed TV series now airing on the Apple Plus streaming service. The premise is that the Soviets beat…

3 min readMay 4, 2023

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Besides “For All Mankind” what other books depict an alternate space program?

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Paul Ehrlich proves the prophets of doom are wrong once again

Recently, that venerable TV news magazine. 60 Minutes, had 90-year-old Paul Ehrlich on to tell its audience that we are all doomed. Dr…

4 min readFeb 17, 2023

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So, helping the blind to see is now a bad thing?

The Gospel of John tells the story of how Jesus Christ cured a blind man. The incident caused a lot of consternation among the Pharisees…

2 min readFeb 4, 2023

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Making the Perfect Sandwich

Sandwiches are deceptively the easiest lunches ever made. Millions of children take them to school and millions of their parents take them…

2 min readJul 21, 2022

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Making the Perfect Sandwich

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What Israel can teach California about water sustainability

Besides being beset by increasingly large shortages of electric power, California is now facing the prospect of water scarcity as well. A…

3 min readJul 9, 2022

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This is not your grandfather’s Tom Swift

The first episode of the TV series version of Tom Swift, based very loosely on the children’s book series about a teenage inventor…

3 min readJun 7, 2022

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Mark Whittington

Mark Whittington

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Mark Whittington, is published in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Hill, USA Today, the LA Times, and the Washington Post.

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