Quark Soup by David Appell

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The Univ of Alabama at Huntsville satellite data also says that last month was the warmest January in their records: +0.724°C above their b...

Remember all those big headlines about how cold is was in January? Turns out that was mostly in the U.S. Globally, last month was the warmes...

Look, mistakes happen. They don't undo science that is 150+ years old. Mistakes happen in science, just like any human endeavor. Remembe...

Last night I watched the preview of Lost's last season, which is supposed to catch you up on everything. I'd watched most of Lost Se...

Letter to the Editor , NY Times , on the French ban on burqas: Do not blame the French. If a vote were held in the United States to bar wome...

Unfortunately, I never got to see Richard Feynman lecture in person.... But every physics student reads his 3-volume Lectures in Physics (o...

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...