Quark Soup by David Appell

It reached 101°F yesterday here in Portland, a record. The old record was a mere 95°F, and the average high for the day is 75°F.

This will be fun to watch, but I'll bet the court rules for the Bush administration: The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether...

I was playing around with some numbers about US greenhouse gas emissions: for 2004, 293.6M US citizens emitted 7,074 Tg CO2 Eq. That comes...

I missed this in April, but look at what EPA administrator Stephen Johnson said upon the release of the most recent US greenhouse gas emiss...

The NY Times has a long editorial today on the space shuttle: The decision to proceed with the launch anyway — made by Michael Griffin, th...

Kos writes : Really Quick by kos Sat Jun 24, 2006 at 04:45:20 PM PDT Just a quick reminder as the media nip at our heels -- We didn't ge...

Redstate links to this cartoon. Some people are simply too stupid for words. UPDATE: Yes, I realize this is a subtle cartoon. I even realiz...

91°F in Portland at 6 pm. A veritable heat wave. It's supposed to get even "worse."

Stupid, drunken, nationalistic soccer fans go berserk and pound the crap out of one another. In other news, the sun comes up again in the e...

An recent article in the Wall Street Journal wonders whether string theory--the now 2-plus decades-old idea in theoretical physics that th...

Long, interesting article in the NY Times about ethanol and the gold rush now underway in the midwest. Most interesting statistic: For all...

Here's an interesting article about an author's visit to Portland, to discover its environmental awareness and why it's ranked ...

I was walking downtown and saw a sandwich board in front of a corner store: Play Powerball One dollar Win millions NO BRAINER! The odds of...

A new paper on global warming and hurricanes came out the day of the NAS report, but it got a little lost in the shuffle. From the press rel...

Some people will, amazingly, continue to insist that black is white, even when you drop a weighty National Academy of Sciences report on the...

A letter writer to the Boston Globe concerned about NASA's upcoming shuttle launch puts it succinctly: IT IS with a sense of dread that...

James Hansen has an article in the July 13th issue of the New York Review of Books , "The Threat to the Planet." It's a revie...

Usually I assume that people are nicer in person that in print. In print you're trying to get attention and trying to make a unique poin...

Yesterday the state of Oregon signed on to new auto emissions standards, the ones originally set by California. Some consequences: new car ...

An interesting op-ed on the pros and cons (mostly cons) of coal and its technologies, in the NY Times: Our Black Future by Jeff Goodell . On...