Quark Soup by David Appell

From the excellent HBO miniseries Generation Kill , which maybe isn't as popular as I assumed it was after watching it. Here'...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/opinion/coronavirus-republicans.html

Where leaders took the coronavirus seriously, numbers have been decreasing. Where they scoffed at it, numbers are increasing. The absolute...

Under Trump the jokes make themselves: American exceptionalism shines so brightly it blinds: NYT : Most U.S. Travelers Will Be Barred From...

GISTEMP Global mean warming 1970-2019: 0.95ºC (±0.1ºC, 95% CI) Arctic warming (64ºN-90ºN): 2.94ºC (±0.4ºC, 95% CI) — Gavin Schmidt (@Cli...

Michael Mann has a new book coming out in January:  The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet. You can pre-order it on Amazon h...

Updating a post from several days ago , about whether US COVID-19 cases are increasing because there's more testing or because there...

Here's a retweet of a tweet showing hospitalizations for COVID-19 in Arizona since April 8th. They're rapidly increasing. Presumably...

What an absolutely horrible man -- Trump ordered less testing so there will be fewer cases on record (bottom video clip). He actually thinks...

Pertaining to yesterday's post on the rise in cases, especially David's comment , here's the data I have on testing, which I re...

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes -- "I Don't Want to Go Home"

Cases of COVID-19 are declining steadily in Canada: but not in the US, perhaps because we are led by a moronic, narcissistic dumbass pr...

I'm pretty late on this, and it's likely something you all know -- as was quickly noted in the comments -- but the  ultrawarm Russi...

For the first five months of the year, Russia has warmed about 4°C since 1850, with this year spiking another 2+°C. Not good. Robert Rhode s...

I asked this question on Twitter but no one would touch it. I don't condone or excuse any of the treatment of 75-year old Martin Gugi...

More record temperatures were just announced for May: NOAA: this past May tied for the warmest May for 2016. NASA: this May was the warm...

This is amazing -- the largest green turtle gathering ever seen in the Great Barrier Reef: This drone footage captured the largest gree...

COVID-19 cases are trending very differently in different parts of the country. This virus is by no means under control. By Peter Walker on ...

The end of John Oliver's weekly program Last Week Tonight , on Policing :