Mark Meek's Ideas

With the arrival of winter you may have wondered about a few things.  We know that those fluffy cumulus clouds, and also the layer stratus c...

So many millions of Americans watch Queen Elizabeth's Christmas message. Remember that royalty does not have to be official, it can be u...

There are two external factors about Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the end of Apartheid in South Africa that I have never seen before that I w...

Let's not let the latest variation of this virus ruin the holiday spirit. The James Webb Space Telescope will be on it's way. It wil...

Just a reminder of what is really happening in the move towards reversing decades of the right to an abortion in America. As we saw in ...

Just posting this to wish a very Merry Christmas to Toronto readers. Even if the border is essentially closed it was my Toronto readers that...

With regard to the recent virtual summit between President Biden and Vladimir Putin over Ukraine remember that all of this, like so much els...

Two of the recent Nobel Prize winners really criticized the "misinformation", fake news, and the "toxic sludge" that soc...

Remember that all energy that we use on earth ultimately comes from three sources, solar, supernova and, from the Big Bang. SOLAR ENERGY The...

Just as aircraft have a "black box", which is actually bright orange, that can be recovered in the event of any mishap to determin...

We usually define a straight line as "the shortest possible distance between two points. But is it really? Since we always define a str...

We saw in the posting, "The End Of The World As We Know It" on this blog, how I am certain that smartphones are the fabled "M...

To fully understand the contentious relationship between Britain and Europe we have to understand that the European Union is really a restor...

There was recently a trial nearby that relied heavily on DNA evidence. The thing that I find a little bit disturbing is how DNA testing seem...

With the crisis in fuel prices today I see a way to save a vast amount of fuel in the flight of airlines, by taking advantage of the rotatio...

F.W. DeKlerk, the former president of South Africa whose passing was announced today, was behind the end of the Apartheid policy, the separa...

Just a reminder for local UB students my theory about how the school really changed world history. This is in the compound posting on this b...

Are readers who are following the developments in the fulfillment of Bible prophecies of the "Last Days" in our time considering A...

This week was the fiftieth anniversary of Canada's policy of multiculturalism. Pierre Trudeau, father of the current prime minister, mad...

With the unveiling of the "Pandora Papers", which surpasses the earlier "Panama Papers" in revealing the extent of tax a...

There was awards of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded this week for work relating to the earth's climate. Let's take this opportunity to...

Just some thoughts about automotive safety after seeing an accident. This is not entirely a new idea but it is something that we should be p...