Quark Soup by David Appell

Here's an interesting site by the cofounders of Instagram ( according to The Verge ), apparently still coding despite being super rich...

Michael E. Mann ⁦‪@MichaelEMann‬⁩ Humbled to be elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences ( ⁦‪@theNASciences‬⁩ ) along wit...

This graph from the Johns Hopkins site shows clearly how the US is failing to contain the coronavirus, compared to the nine other countries...

From worldometers.info : But OurWorldinData gives different view of recent case numbers: In fact, the total number of cases i...

I'm not sure I'm going to write about Covid-19 anymore, or even about anything more for awhile. It's all turned too political, w...

I'm surprised to see this freveral from Canada -- from tonight's NY Times . What happened? Though Canada's cases per capi...

Nothing has revealed the intellectual vapidity of the climate denial community than their insistence they also know the truth of Covid-19...

From The New Atlantis , updated on April 21st by Ari Schulman, Brendan Foht, Samuel Matlack:

As seen from space:

NOAA just released their global land+sea temperature anomaly for March 2020: +1.16°C above the 20th century average (1901-2000). That makes...

Despite many economies being partially shut-down due to Covid-19, there doesn't seem to be a decline in atmospheric CO2 beyond the usual...

Unfortunately this strikes me as all too believable: "Gazing out at the future from the promontory of the present, with the planet h...

Just read/realized these apparent peaks for Canada and the US might be an artifact of ordinary delays in reporting cases and deaths. Bewar...

Here are the charts for Canada, where it seems cases/day has already peaked, and deaths/day is just about to.  Canada's cases per capita...

US deaths/day and cases/day seem to be about to peak: and in Italy now deaths/day are on the decline:

... according to Judith Curry. More : Also according to Marc Morana, 15 hours ago. Singer was 95 years old, according to Wikipedia. More :...

My readers are smart so you've probably come across items like this, but I found this YouTube video on the 1918 flu pandemic interesting...

After some Excel shenanigans I managed to extract the top 20 countries by cases per capita and death rate. (As these aren't desired quan...

Daily death are now coming down in Italy. Still rising in the US, now over 1,000 a day, but if you look hard enough you can see a slight arc...