Quark Soup by David Appell

"There is no evidence of climate change scenarios that would render human beings extinct," Michael Mann, a distinguished profes...

Hockey season is less than four weeks away ... The National Hockey League, that is. The regular season starts on October 12th with my team,...

A television series based on Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy is coming to Apple TV+ on September 24, and the trailer (below) looks pr...

That was the title of Paul Krugman's NYT column today: The Quiet Rage of the Responsible . Some put it in other ways, as below. I'm...

Lee Billings of Scientific American has a great, lengthy article on the "Decadal Survey," or Astro2020, the Astronomy and Astrop...

A stunning photograph, by Ben Jackman , an amateur photographer from Portland, Oregon, via Facebook . Posted with permission.

This is just amazing -- it looks like sci fi, but it's real. Having read books like The Search for Planet X as a boy, its a real deligh...

NOAA found the anomaly for the global mean surface temperature to be 0.93°C; NASA found 0.92°C, both were records for July in their respecti...

Here's more on the acceleration of global warming according to the Copernicus database. Their measurements start only in 1979, but we ca...

Looks like something from a virtual reality set, but it's the scene from a boat as it leaves an island in Greece: Absolutely terrifyi...

These days the Copernicus Climate Change Service in Europe is the first monthly with a measure of the global average surface temperature an...

I received this notification from Blogger: I honestly don't know much about this.... I guess some of your are getting a notification abo...

Word is that the amazing physicist Steven Weinberg passed away yesterday at the age of 88.  Peter Woit has more . Weinberg was a giant in th...

Haven't digested this yet and won't get to it until later, but I'll put this here now. Comments welcome. Reason.com : DC Court G...

Here's the trailer for the remake of Dune . Looks really good. I wasn't into sci-fi when the book came out, although I bought it an...

One million hectares = 2.47 million acres = 3,861 sq miles = (62 miles) 2 . By contrast Oregon has so far lost about 400,000 acres to fires...

Just a few things I noticed today:  India's GDP dropped 8.6% in 2020 compared to the year before. Wow that's huge.  "Invitatio...

Here's how COVID looks on England's "Freedom Day." Looks more like freedom for the virus instead of for the people. It...