Mark Meek's Ideas

What everyone admires about Pittsburgh is simply that it is a "winner" city. Geography dictates that it should be part of the ...

In case anyone hasn't been watching democracy has really been slipping in the world. We saw this in the June 2022 posting, "Remembe...

Boston is the main city in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, and in the northeastern region of the U.S., known as New England. The settlement...

I am fascinated by our higher complexity level, relative to our inanimate surroundings. But exactly how much more complex are we?  We can re...

There has been a lot in the news lately about how the James Webb Space Telescope is expected to discover many more exoplanets, and then exam...

With regard to the overthrow of the Rajapaksa Dynasty, in Sri Lankan politics, is anyone concerned about the supply of tea? Sri Lanka produc...

Washington D.C. was especially built as America's capital city because, at the time it was built, it was roughly centered between the no...

This is not about Einstein's Relativity. There is another kind of relativity of time that does not get much attention. It could be descr...

We have recently passed the longest day of the year, June 21, and the day when the earth is furthest from the sun, July 4. According to cele...

With guns being such an issue in America let's have a look at it's old west. I believed that the fabled "Shootout at the O.K. C...

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...