Quark Soup by David Appell

"What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if in the end all we're willing to do is stand ar...

Michael (Michał) Heller, a Polish cosmologist and Catholic priest whose research specializes on the origin and cause of the universe, won th...

See what high gas prices do? Truckers may be slowing down to save fuel costs -- I read the other day that each 10 mph over the speed limit...

The entire discussion of health insurance in the US is going in the wrong direction, and its clear that none of the presidential candidates ...

From the film "The Job." via: Dark Roasted Blend

Yes, of course I worry that large sections of ice breaking off of Antarctica are due to global warming, but there's a bias in stories l...

This has been an unusually cold winter in the northern hemisphere, and as The Oil Drum points out, natural gas use is up . Presumably heatin...

Roy Spencer has an op-ed in the Energy Tribune , that ends with this: I am not claiming that all of our recent warming is natural. But the ...

From the isn't life ironic department: Mary Louise Parker (Nancy Botwin) is engaged to Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Judah Botwin), who played ...

Hillary says the reason she lied about undergoing sniper attack in Bosnia is because she was "sleep-deprived." OK. But I assume th...

ThinkProgress are big fans of arguing about the consensus of climate scientists on global warming -- case closed.... but when they're on...

OK, I am as happy to get rid of the Clinton machine as anyone, but still, you have to like Chelsea Clinton's response today at Butler U...

Did you know that the planet Mercury has cliffs that are 2 miles high and hundreds of miles long? That must be a sight to see....

The environmental group Common Current has released a report, "US City Preparedness for an Oil Crisis," and here are the top six ...

Every so often you get a glimpse of the future and it strikes you that it's going to be very weird. That was my reaction to watching thi...

The Hadley Centre in England is out with their February temperature measurement : +0.194°C above the long-term average. That compares to NAS...

For a really good review of the state of knowledge about past, current, and future sea-level rise, see the WaterWired blog .

Currently you can buy a futures contract on John McCain winning the Republican nomination for 94.3 cents on the Iowa Electronic Market , pa...

Wow, here's something you don't see much anymore: raw, naked anti-gay bigotry from a Oregon state senator. And he's not even as...

Yes, I am tired of the Larry Craig's and David Vittner's and James McGeervey and, now, Elliot Spitzer. It's mostly a matter for ...