West Mifflin Area School District

August 1, 2016 by

Nuclear Literacy Can Save Nuclear Power

In its first two decades of service, the Douglas DC-3 — maybe the most amazing, safe, and hardworking aircraft ever built — was denounced in folk legend as wildly unsafe. It was branded a flying coffin by those who didn’t know the data. The myth that it wasn’t airworthy matured into an out-and-out lie. In […]

Drought Will Destabilize the West, Forcing Huge Changes

Llewellyn King

The big story isn’t in Washington. It’s out West. It’s the drought. After the fires have gone out (there are 80), the crops have failed, the herds have been culled, and the home lawns and gardens have shriveled up, the re-engineering of the West will have to begin. Many things will have to change. Technology […]

On Slipping the Surly Bonds of Sunday Shows and Flying with Branson

Llewellyn King

It wasn’t an especially sunny day last Sunday but, in my home, there was light aplenty and lightness, too. The joy came not from the normal charges and countercharges on Sunday morning television. Instead, it was the flight into near space of Richard Branson, the show-off billionaire tycoon, aboard his own Virgin Galactic spaceship. It […]

Shove This Job Is the Theme of the Great Labor Reshuffle

Llewellyn King

Millions of Americans appear to be echoing the words of the Johnny Paycheck song “Take This Job and Shove It.” This is a sentiment that is changing the work scene, the way we work, and the future of work. The workers of America are shuffling the deck in a way that has never happened before. […]