Quark Soup by David Appell

This sounds like not just bad news, but even dangerous news: Several key Republican Congressmen — most notably Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista)...

Here's a very interesting interview with Manfred Max-Neef, a leading economist from Chile. He makes a lot of very good points about...

"Nostalgia locates desire in the past, where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly." -- Robert Haas...

John Fleck has pointed me towards the document in question: WASHINGTON ROUNDTABLE ON SCIENCE & PUBLIC POLICY Science Advice to Congres...

John Fleck comments: Re: " Greenberg, Pielke Jr, Mann, Ehrlich and Rahmstorf ": The answer is that Greenberg seems not to have w...

Thomas Friedman gives a nice little picture of where America is today: “Here is a little dose of reality about where we actually rank toda...

I guess the latest climate kerfuffle (who can keep up?) is about Daniel Greenberg's review of Roger Pielke Jr's new book in Nature...

What happened before the Big Bang?

There's a good letter in the Oregonian on school bullying: One of the most interesting factors in our American culture is the way we ...

Hal Lewis, the  physicist who two decades ago   warned about   the dangers of greenhouse gas warming, has become a cause celebre for now cha...

Nathaniel Fisher: You hang on to your pain like it means something. Like it's worth something. Well, let me tell you - it's not wort...

Here's a very interesting graph: I trust I don't have to explain the horizontal axis to you. Via: Youtube .

Last winter was unusual. Well, it was in some places. It wasn't where I live: the temperatures in Scappoose, OR were 2.1°F above bas...

“Secrecy is essential to empire.” -- Daniel Ellsberg, NY Times, Oct 23, 2010

The New York Times essay by Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, is especially elegant and worth reading. It's...

NYT : "Health insurance premiums are expected to rise an average of 8.8 percent, according to data compiled by the benefits consulting ...

io9 writes about photomedicine, but here's what I've been wondering about lately: why have no animals ever evolved that directly co...

"American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains."...

“I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement--it takes place every day.” -- Albert Camus

Here in Oregon we vote by the US postal system. They send you a Voter's Guide, and a few days later a ballot, and you fill it out and se...