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From the Moon’s south pole to an ice-covered ocean world, several exciting space missions are slated for launch in 2024 Ali M. Bramson, Purdue University The year 2023 proved to be an important one for space missions, with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returning a sample from an asteroid and India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission exploring the lunar south pole, Read more

I’ve been re-reading the paperbacks of my youth – the Matt Helm series by Donald Hamilton.  Matt has a somewhat cynical view of the world – a view that is hard to reject, but doesn’t match socially acceptable.  The author, Donald Hamilton described Matt: “He’s actually a nice guy.  He just happens to kill people Read more

I started out believing Christmas was a Christian holiday – probably mostly a Protestant holiday at that. Those early years were Methodist. Yet as I’ve gone through life, I’ve grown to realize that, like Saint Patrick’s day, Christmas is for everyone. I’ll receive Christmas greetings from Japan – and Christians are rare there. This article Read more

“If defending free speech doesn’t get you into trouble, then you are not in fact defending free speech. The only speech worth defending is unpopular and very often it comes out of the mouths of people nobody likes.” Peter Hitchens “I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right Read more

I noticed this meme this morning – really noticed instead of just seeing it and moving past without thinking about it: It’s a simple question that doesn’t have a simple answer.  The term ‘wage-slave’ started before the US Civil war, and was an argument southern slave-holders used to prove the northern abolitionists weren’t standing on Read more