Quark Soup by David Appell

Polamalu was asked if he wished he could use his pulpit to address subjects other than football. “I’d rather not talk at all, to be hones...

One of the interesting side stories to the revolution now taking place in Egypt is, what happens to a modern country when it disconnects its...

While U.S. particle scientists are being told to soon shut down their equipment, European scientists are being given another year to keep l...

Rand Paul (R-KY) has a (somewhat) detailed plan to cut the federal budget by $500B, which is still only 1/3rd of the budget deficit. It wou...

In a Gallup poll taken before the State of the Union speech, a majority of Americans favored cuts in only one area: foreign aid. "More...

Yes, someone is keeping track .

Just came back from four days in Albuquerque, cleaning out my mother's house. She died this past September, and my sister and I have bee...

The National Resource Defense Council (NRDC) has purchased carbon offsets for Obama's motorcade tonight from the White House to Congres...

While the extreme vitriol of the extreme right-wing in still in our minds since the Tucson murders, can we (again) talk about the extreme rh...

In 1969, Robert Wilson , the director of the then-being-created Fermilab, was called to justify the multimillion-dollar machine to the Congr...

The story of the MMR vaccine and its purported relation to autism just got even more outrageous. As you probably saw, the study on which t...

So 2010 was not only the warmest year in the records, but the wettest as well  (both NASA and NOAA data). NYT : It was the 34th year runnin...

Jonathon Capehart in the Washington Post : So far, there's no connection between alleged murderer Jared Lee Loughner and the extremes ...

"The Global Budget Race" by Douglas J. Besharov and Douglas M. Call, Wilson Quarterly , Autumn 2010 A common misconception is th...

David Frum : Palin failed to appreciate the question being posed to her. That question was not: “Are you culpable for the shooting?” The qu...

This picture will certainly go down in the annals of our fucked up culture, won't it? Right next to Charles Manson.... A photograph o...

George Packer in The New Yorker : "...the tragedy wouldn't change this basic fact: for the past two years, many conservative leade...

Stephen Budiansky http://budiansky.blogspot.com/2011/01/not-us-cont.htm : "For as long as I can remember, I have heard conservative...

Remember methane? It has 22 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide, though it resides in the atmosphere for much less time. Anywa...