Quark Soup by David Appell

Over on Dot Earth they're talking about James Hansen's recent call for criminal prosecution of oil and coal executives who deny ant...

"My fellow Americans: We are a country in debt and in decline — not terminal, not irreversible, but in decline. Our political system se...

Portland, Oregon public transportation subsidies per ride: pink = buses yellow = light rail blue = system total Source: http://trimet.org/pd...

Ads like this are complete scaremongering, without any scientific basis whatsoever, foolish and unconvincing, and do damage to the cause of ...

Here's something I don't understand: if the spike in oil prices is due to Peak Oil, why are natural gas prices also spiking?

I was corresponding with someone at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado about today's Independent story that the North ...

9:35 pm, and there is still more than a bit of dusk in the atmosphere in Portland.

I think Dalia Lithwick perfectly captures the essence of today''s Supreme Court ruling on the second amendment: At Slate’s Breakfas...

A couple of questions, if anyone knows: Sometimes a recently calculated MS Excel cell contains a colon after the number, i.e. 63.1: What doe...

Does this make any (environmental) sense at all? “ More couples are wanting a low-impact, small, destination wedding, where instead of makin...

Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death: Via: http://members.tripod.com/abbynuss1/id32.htm

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I have always had the impression, anytime I've ever heard Newt Gingrich talk, that he was half blitzed on Southern Comfort, in that all-...

Yes, I am a rutting intellectual fool, but I'm not immune to some common pleasures. And this Hancock movie with Will Smith looks pretty...

On Townhall.com, Charles Krauthammer writes : The entire Arctic refuge is one-third the size of the United Kingdom (which includes Scotland ...

Clark Williams-Derry of Seattle's Sightline Institute has a nice analysis in their weekly mailing: walking burns about 220 mpg, or 1/12...

Yoram Bauman , an environmental economist at the University of Washington, says : As a very rough rule of thumb, flying produces the same ca...

Can you imagine that tens of thousands of Americans might protest over the sale of beef greater than a few years old? For that matter, can ...

Look, I know that we are not going to solve the global warming problem through conservation. And we will never revert back to some 1880'...