Quark Soup by David Appell

I am disappointed with the subscription plan recently announced by the New York Times . Don't get me wrong -- I love the NYT. If I h...

According to der Spiegel , a French model calculates that the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan has already released one-tenth of the ...

Some interesting things I’ve come across recently: over 28,000 species of nematodes are known , and there may be as many as a million. The...

I know that Randell Mills ' ideas about "hydrinos" (a purported energy state of the hydrogen atom below the canonical ground s...

Arizona -- who has acted Oh-so-tough against "illegal" immigrants (as if a mere line on a map should tell people where they can an...

Arctic sea ice extent has peaked, and it's not especially good news. According to the JAXA satellite , Arctic sea ice extent peaked on...

"He tried sellin' his heart to the hard girls over on Easy Street But they sighed 'Johnny it falls apart so easy, and you kno...

From Roger Ebert's review of Battle: Los Angeles : The aliens are hilarious.... They seem to be animal/machine hybrids with automatic ...

The EPA announced today that radiation from the stricken Japanese nuclear reactor complex has hit the west coast of the U.S., though at ext...

PIOMASS has new data on Arctic sea ice volume: (The gray bands are one- and two-standard deviations.) They don't give actual number...

Some day this vote ( "Committee Republicans Unanimously Reject Measures Reaffirming Science Behind Global Warming" ) is going to l...

6 months on the Appalachian Trail -- I miss it: Green Tunnel from Kevin Gallagher on Vimeo .

Via: someecards

A radio interviewer once asked me why anyone should care about cosmology. I was about to launch into the usual "origins of everything w...

The most impressive picture I've seen so far, from Japan ( via Al Jazerra ):

This SF Chronicle article says the tsunami hit Crescent City, CA about 7:30 am yesterday morning, with waves at least 8.1 ft high, destr...

There are an amazingly large number of very strong aftershocks from the Honshu earthquake -- here's a list .

The Honshu earthquake traveled about 350 mi/hr across the Pacific ocean to reach Brookings, OR. -- Earthquake time/lat/long :  3/10/11 9:4...