Quark Soup by David Appell

I haven't found a source for the full zipped-up file, but here is (purportedly) the README file from it ( via Tallbloke's Talkshop )...

Viewers of Fox News are less informed than those who don't watch any news at all, according to a poll from Fairleigh Dickinson Univers...

As Mitt Romney was leaving the governor's office in Massachusetts in 2006, 11 of his top aides bought the hard drives to their state-iss...

"It looks as though he’s spraying weeds in the garden or coating the oven with caustic cleanser. It’s not just the casual, dispassionat...

Here's a term I hope catches on: "Earth system sensitivity," which is the expected change in the Earth's global temperatu...

From AskPhilosophers.org , in a reply to a question on philosophical discussions of why the universe exists: There is also a story that Si...

This past week Europe banned the x-ray scanners used in U.S. airports. (Here's the EU's press release announcing the ban.) Their r...

Here is a nice explanation on the landing procedure on Mars for the rover Curiosity, schedule to launch next week and land next August. Seem...

Wow, yesterday 30,000 people rallied in New York City as part of Occupy Wall Street -- that's not a fringe protest by any stretch of th...

"Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the n...

A comment to the op-ed piece in the New York Times on the constitutionality of the individual mandate to buy health insurance: "It ...

Michael Mann has been awarded the Hans Oeschger Medal from the European Geosciences Union: http://live.psu.edu/story/56383 It recog...

"America’s 50 million uninsured haven’t gotten any airtime in the presidential campaign thus far, because we’ve been listening only to ...

Atmospheric methane levels have been mostly flat since the late-1990s, but they may be on the increase again. A discussion paper in Atmosph...