Quark Soup by David Appell

I am now blogging, sort of, over at QuarkSoup.net

Last week I was at the Rocky Mountain Workshop on Evidence-based Health Care in Vail, Colorado, and one of the speakers at one of the plena...

In some really lousy medical journalism, Nancy Dow of The Oregonian wrote a July 12th article on Sally Field and the osteoporosis drug Bon...

I'll be at a conference for the next week; no posting until I get back. .

I can really see the effect of RSS on my blog's readership. When I don't post my blog sails along at 3-5 readers/hour, but as soon ...

Hear, hear : "I am frankly tired of hearing the same stories from the administration's national security team,'' [Hillary] ...

One of Floyd's lawyers suggested that dehydration might be the reason he tested high in the T/E test. A professor quickly shot him down...

So Jonah Goldberg doesn't like Oregon . Whoopy shit. What, he lives in northern Virginia or Maryland, both shitholes filled with traffic...

Chris Mooney and Matthew Nisbet have an article in the Skeptical Inquirer about media coverage of the issue of hurricanes and global warmin...

My God--at this moment, 6:32 EDT, there is a spot on the Plymouth heat map that says it's 117°F at a spot on the border between North a...

Kevin Drum writes that Brad Delong thinks we are heading towards recession because oil prices are "spiking...." Jeez -- oil price...

I am not very impressed that conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson is now saying that the recent heat wave has converted him int...

I think it's interesting that summer heat waves require more electricity than do winter cold waves. At first glance I would have guessed...

It snowed today in Johannesburg, South Africa, latitude 26 degrees South. It is the depth of winter there, and they say the snow is "...

Isn't this a great looking mountain? It's Three-Fingered Jack , in central Oregon, with Mt. Jefferson in the background. 7841 ft. I ...

It's not looking good for Floyd Landis, is it? The NY Times more or less convicts him in this article, as a carbon isotope ratio test ...

I really don't care too much about what happens in Kansas -- if they want their kids to grow up to be idiots, that's their business ...

This looks like an interesting book: "Minds in Distress," by Edward E. Loewe. From a marketing email I received: "Minds in D...

According to a new paper in Geophysical Research Letters , global warming implies more need for A/C than it does reduced heating needs: ...