Quark Soup by David Appell

Frank Rich, NY Times , on Obama's State of the Union address: ...our union is not strong. It is paralyzed. Many Americans were more eag...

Just some interesting things I've come across: Stoat has a great picture of wind turbine wakes. Every so often a book comes along that ...

The other day I mentioned the peculiar end to Tolstoy's life. Today I learned that there is a book on the subject, The Last Station: A ...

JD Salinger died yesterday, a recluse in New Hampshire , and the mainstream media's reaction seem mostly to be, How dare he not allow us...

This Reuters story says that the US says it will embrace the Copenhagen Accord and "aim for a 17 percent reduction in emissions of car...

Lately I have been reading some of Tolstoy's nonfiction, especially his views on religion. (Basically, he thinks nearly every Christian ...

Just over a year ago I voted for Barack Obama, who I thought could make a genuine difference. I watched with astonishment and glee as he was...

I don't know about you, but often I find that the Web provides too much information. Let me explain. Anymore, when I read a book or watc...

Garrison Keillor , NY Times : Meanwhile, one-sixth of the U.S. population is without health insurance, and Republicans have decided that def...

There is a lot of gas being passed on both sides of the climate debate. Especially, almost no one seems to be realistic, and those who are a...

The atomic scientist Leo Szilard wrote an interesting collection of short stories, The Voice of the Dolphins , in which humans looked to a g...

"When you don't know where you're going, every road will take you there. ” -- Yiddish proverb

So it turns out that True/Slant is not a very good place to be a blogger/writer after all. After we both signed a contract in late November...

I'm moving Quark Soup over to True/Slant . Please join me there , and update your bookmarks and RSS feed.

People seem to often be focusing first on this word "trick" used in a Phil Jones email : In one e-mail from 1999, the center's...

Here's a great video clip of a pack of wolves majestically moving up a mountain in eastern Oregon. Oregonian story here .

I've been busy and have only been able to spend about 2 hours reading about the CRU hack, and some of the documents themselves. A few co...

I have a new email address: david.appell@gmail.com It will be good until either Google or I go out of business.