Mark Meek's Ideas

Philadelphia was founded by William Penn, for whom Pennsylvania is named (Penn's Woods). Think of Philadelphia as a grid. The main north...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling this week overturned the 1973 ruling in favor of abortion. The Religious Right is delighted. A really importan...

Did you notice a simple example this week of how history repeats itself? History is so important because we tend to repeat it, often without...

Inflation is the highest that it has been in forty years. What I would like to do is compare inflation now to that in the late 1970s and ear...

There are often discussions as to the "shape" of the space in the universe. An illustration of what the space of the universe migh...

Vladimir Putin recently compared himself to Peter the Great. Putin is from St. Petersburg and we saw in the visit, "St. Petersburg And ...

The celebration of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee was outstanding. The Elizabeth Line, of the London Underground, was completed just in ti...

"Heliocentrism" means that the earth, and the other planets, revolve around the sun. Since ancient times people have studied the n...

Here is a commentary on two mass shootings, one recently and the other fifty years ago. THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE UVALDE SCHOOL SHOOTING There...

Of course, taking guns away is the way to stop mass shootings, but we know that isn't going to be happening anytime soon. There is a cul...

It was in Newsweek this week that Russian state television described the war in Ukraine as a "rehearsal", of the latest weapons, f...

I periodically collect postings of similar subject matter together into a compound posting. This collection is about the mind-bending cosmol...