Quark Soup by David Appell

I loved Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry of the Future and recommend it to anyone who is interested in the subject of climate change...

"At last week’s Alaska meeting between America’s and China’s top diplomats, Chinese officials made it quite clear that they no longer f...

The court case of Mann vs Steyn has apparently been dismissed. You can read a heavily biased account by an idiotic climate change denier  he...

"I hope to die on Mars, just not on the landing." - Elon Musk Blogging is still light, due to my finger spli...

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us." Franz Kafka

Thought I'd look at some recent vaccination rates:   The US is now, in just 6 weeks, at twice the rate as when Trump left office, bu...

A short post to say that, belatedly, that if you're interested in the many dimensions of the climate change issue, you have to read The ...

Blogging may be slight this week as I dislocated a little finger when I rolled an ankle and fell on the street while getting the mail. Stupi...

I found this comment on a NY Times op-ed last week. I don't remember which article and it doesn't matter; the comment stands on its...

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I'm including this video of the Perseverance rover descending and landing on Mars, which probably you've seen, just because it's...

The mayor of Colorado City, Texas wrote a Facebook post saying it wasn't his responsibility to take care of anyone suffering in the col...

Ted Cruz went to Cancun and left his dog alone in a dark, cold house...like millions of other Texans. A state led by Republican couldn't...

I've been keeping track of the US vaccination numbers for awhile, via the CDC's site . Now that we have a competent president, thing...

James Speth is a Professor of Law at the Vermont Law School and served as Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies from...

Here's the video House impeachment managers played to the Senate today in Trump's impeachment trial. It's really quite something...

From today's Washington Post : The assertion that Trump acted swiftly and out of genuine horror as his supporters ransacked the Capi...

“I have built my staff around comms rather than legislation.” -- 25-year-old freshman Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) via  WaPo .   Cawtho...

Here's a great example of Marjorie Taylor Greene's lunacy and depravity, from a column today in the NY Times by Michelle Goldberg:...