Quark Soup by David Appell

Does global warming make tropical cyclones stronger? « RealClimate A must-read at RealClimate: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives...

In the mail: The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can't Do , by Edward Tenner, published by Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. From Publisher...

Consider, say, a missile, 5 meters long and 1 meter in diameter. After it's launched, at what speeds could it be tracked by the human ...

"...James Chadwick, the discoverer of the neutron, had studied physics only because he was too shy to point out that he had mista...

Global warming continues. The data for ocean heat content for the first quarter of this year came out the other day for the global regions...

Up until now I thought that global warming would have a significant impact on crop yields, both in the US and elsewhere. But I've gath...

I just think this is a cool & interesting graphic:

As you probably know, the de-orbiting Chinese space station Tiangong-1 will soon fall to Earth . This thing is 10.4 meters long and, on l...

I've recently come across a few free, online climate textbooks, and thought it worth mentioning here. A great introduction to the basi...

From my mailbox: My Plastic Brain: One Woman's Yearlong Journey to Discover If Science Can Improve Her Mind  by Caroline Williams. A...

The best Hawking obit I've read: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawking-obituary

Last night I started watching The Expanse on Amazon Prime. It's been really good scifi so far, and has that nitty-gritty view of future...

When you read this blog, is the page too wide for your screen? Do you have to scroll right in order to see what's beyond the post itse...

A few years ago, mathematician Ian Stewart published a book titled 17 Equations That Changed The World . It's an interesting list: ...

What can you even do when climate deniers won't agree to the basic rules of arithmetic?? Ed Berry is a physicist who earned his PhD b...

Via National Geographic

Data: monthly health care costs - Altarum Institute monthly inflation: Fred CPI-U

This is an astonishing graph: The Arctic is currently about 17°C (31°F) degrees above normal. The baseline (green line) is the 195...

From KarlMagnus Petersson‏ on Twitter : In the same way, you can show (I think) that which is also cool, but not as cool, since...

The science fiction writer Ursula Le Guin recently died (she lived in Portland, Oregon for decades), and since I hadn't read anything by...