Quark Soup by David Appell

A couple of years ago when I lived in Lee, New Hampshire , there was a big ceremony a few miles down the road at the arena of the University...

Bumper sticker I saw on the way to the store: The Emperor has no brain.

One of the reasons I've felt like I never have understood biology to the degree I feel I understand physics is because I can never under...

Lubos Motl has a pretty good respons e to John Horgan's continued insistence that science is coming to an end. There have been very sig...

Wikipedia : "...60 percent of Roman citizens died, from all causes, before age 20...."

I see that some conservative organization named Family Security Matters has named the Ten Most Dangerous Organizations in America . They lis...

This is not far from my typical morning:

Via David Brooks in the NYT : I read in a piece by Clive Thompson in Wired that a third of the people under 30 can’t remember their own pho...

The other day David Reinhard,the conservative opinion-monger for the Oregonian , thought he could get away with disparaging the parents of G...

I have an article in the November issue of Scientific American , just out: "Repairs without Rivets : Carbon-fiber composites could l...

The problem with my profession: no haka .

I am really astonished at yesterday's announcement that the world's carbon intensity has been increasing since about the year 2000. ...

Andrew Revkin of the NY Times now has a blog: Dot Earth http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/

Oil production peaked last year, says an energy group in Germany, much sooner than experts predicted. (The International Energy Association...

A British Telecom futurologist, Ian Pearson, predicts that there will be conscious machines by 2015-2020 (whatever that means--in fact, he ...

This is not encouraging: in the last 10 years the oceans have been taking up significantly less carbon dioxide than they once did: 50% les...

In memory, supposedly, of Blaze Foley :

Mitchell Turker, here of Portland, has a letter in today's New York Times that perfectly encapsulates my feelings after seven years of...

This is a pretty screwed up world, there's no doubt about it. Answers seem few and far between, and it's hard to believe we are not ...

Wow, I am amazed to read this : John Marburger, the President's science adviser, yesterday refused to acknowledge that climate change ou...