Good day and welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. Today is Wednesday, March the 13th,

2024. I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO,

Dr. Jim Denison. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, each won enough delegates last night to become the presumptive nominees of their parties.

A vote is scheduled today in Congress that could lead to a U.S. ban of TikTok.

And the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Special Counsel Robert Hurst testimony before lawmakers yesterday accomplished a rare feat,

angering all sides of the political world. Meanwhile, I'd like to go a different direction this morning

by asking if you could tell the universe one thing about humanity, what would you share?

NASA is preparing its Europa Clipper spaceship for an October launch.

Six years from now, after a 1.6 billion mile journey, it will begin orbiting Jupiter,

making 49 close flybys of Europa to determine if the moon has conditions that could support life.

The craft will include a triangular metal plate on which is inscribed

what one NASA official calls the best humanity has to offer across the universe, science, technology,

education, art, and math. Biblical truth is apparently not included, which says something about

what the agency considers humanity's best knowledge.

However, an engraving of U.S. Poet Laudette Ada Laman's handwritten in praise of mystery, a poem of Europa, will make the flight.

Her poem includes these lines.

We are creatures of constant awe, curious at beauty, at leaf and blossom,

at grief and pleasure, sun and shadow. Oh, second moon, we too are made of water of vast and beckoning

seas. We too are made of wonders, of great and ordinary loves, of small invisible worlds, of a need

to call out through the dark.

Lemone is right. Our constant awe shows that you and I are intended for more than the mundane.

In fact, we were made to seek the one who made us. The good news is that when we call out through the dark,

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