Quark Soup by David Appell

For the entire cartoon, click here . From: SMBC , via Boing-Boing .

Sorry for all the comment spam from Asia that has been infesting this site. I've turned on comment moderation for posts older than one d...

The final statistics for Cash for Clunkers are in , and Joe Romm says the program was well worth it. I don't see it that way at all, a...

Here's a nice Web site run by physical geographer Ole Humlum that gives you all the monthly data you want on climate: Climate4You.com ...

This isn't a very good recording, but in any case Usain Bolt is just beyond belief: 19.19 s for the 200 m, after running 9.59 s in the ...

Tim Lambert, as usual, injects a few sweet facts into the discussion, and (again) makes Tim Blair look like a fool.

This is pretty good: this morning the Seattle Times published a story about a man who woke up in a Seattle park and did not know who he wa...

Robert S. Boyd of McClatchy newspapers writes : Official government measurements show that the world's temperature has cooled a bit sinc...

Yesterday Seattle voters declined a proposed fee of 20 cents per plastic shopping bag, 58% to 42%. Plastic bag manufacturers outspent ($1.4...

Barney Frank says what needed to be said for weeks: "On what planet do you spend most of your time?" Perhaps progressives, liberal...

Anybody want to buy a Magellan GPS 2000 Satellite Navigator (born 1996)? See: http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/ele/1330314717.html

From the Washington Post : In Defense of Britain's Health System By Ara Darzi and Tom Kibasi Fear is the weapon of choice for opponents ...

You should definitely see District 9 , if you haven't already. It's even more original than Cloverfield , plus the camerawork won...

Stuff from the weekend: see El Nino form before your very eyes . learn how the whole economic game is rigged for the rich and connected. th...

It is amazing (and disheartening) to see how little attention Americans have paid to Typhoon Morakot. This storm stretched from the Philipp...

Hu McCulloch accepts Steig's lack of plagarism of his blog post... sort of. But then he writes: However, while ignorance may be an iron...

This might be the best tattoo ever: via: Oddee

Here's a wonderful view of Victoria Crater on Mars, taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. One of the Mars rovers spent about...

Realclimate makes such a good point today that it's worth reproducing and putting alongside every blog out there: There is nothing wron...

This is interesting : wind power usually supplies about 4% of the Portland region's power. But during the big heat wave here two weeks a...