Quark Soup by David Appell

Number of handgun-related killings by private U.S. citizens that were deemed justifiable homicides:  -- less than 2.5% over the years 2004-...

Bart Verheggen (http://ourchangingclimate.wordpress.com) wrote : >> Citizen science as the new skepticism? > Over at Keith’s, I g...

Some video technician/nerd is having himself some fun at the World Cup: "The video operators are under strict instructions from FIFA n...

In the wake of the horrendous call in today's England-Germany match, everyone is talking about instituting "goal-line technology,...

A Mandelbox is a particular kind of fractal. You probably have heard about fractals -- "self-similar" objects where, no matter h...

From coverage of the Evolution 2010 conference in Portland: A reception featuring local wine and beer preceded a public lecture by Sean B....

US goes home. It was fun while it lasted.

Do all the young little Journolist writers realize that all their self-protective, self-indulgent ego-stroking is viewed by the rest of the...

A few days ago I asked Roy Spencer , the well-known AGW-skeptical scientist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville who keeps the UAH the...

Some stuff too small for their own post: there is a Cat 5 hurricane loose in the Pacific Ocean -- Hurricane Celia . The National Hurricane ...

Via: Andrew Sullivan

Two years ago I heard Stephen Schneider give a talk at a journalism seminar in Portland. He was clearly frustrated at the state of the clima...

You know you want to read them. Here they are . Gore apparently went by the name "Mr. Stone" when he checked into the Hotel Luci...

Here is a beautiful little calculation by Kip Thorne that I just can't resist. First of all, let me thank Thorne for his massive tomb,...

I'm still not sure what I think of yesterday's controversial Schneider et al PNAS paper , but I am sure about Joseph Romm's rem...

I know I complained about the vuvuzelas, but I think the TV feed has found a way to minimize them. In any case, the US just advanced in the ...

Here's an interesting paper that raises an issue many people haven't thought about: how much water are dams holding back from the s...

Yet again Joe Romm  resorts to extreme catastrophism due to global warming, in Salon : ...sea level rise could hit 4 to 6 feet by century...

Of all the arguments against dealing with anthropogenic climate change, Jonah Goldberg chooses one of the cheapest : Of course you can put ...