Quark Soup by David Appell

From today's Nature Briefing (from Nature magazine): Misuse of the word ‘endemic’ in relation to COVID-19 is encouraging a misplaced ...

Now there's another new COVID variant unleashed, this one a subvariant of omicron. It's been tearing through Denmark , where it'...

Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins scored his third goal of the game Friday night, a hat trick, with some pretty impressive geometry. ...

The Kaiser Family Foundation has published COVID-19 case and death numbers, by state, as of 1/20/22. They are, unfortunately, not surprisin...

Apparently this has been known for a few decades, but quietly, and it's hitting the news again : Erwin Schrödinger, famous for his funda...

Berkeley Earth has global warming at 1.2°C (a little higher than NOAA and GISS by 0.1°C) and is projecting 1.5°C by 2033, relative to 1850-1...

OK thanks to commenters I think we're honing in on the truth about gasoline prices, by comparing them to median family income since 199...

Now there's a tree/shrub in front of my porch with buds on it. I don't think this is normal for central Oregon in mid-January. And t...

Here is the average US gas price vs personal income per capita, since 1990. Neither is adjusted for inflation, and both are set to a scale o...

Some people are complaining about the price of gas, and ok it is at a 7-year high. But both nominally and adjusted for inflation, it's b...

Someone should put this on a business card and laminate it, and sell it at climate conferences, teacher conferences, and wherever science is...

Sidney Crosby is the best: Brian Page, who was paralyzed while playing for the Little #Flyers in November of 2020, gets a puck from cla...

I thought I'd list the books I read in 2021. My goal is always to read a book a week, but I never succeed -- this year I read 27, which ...

Earth's average global surface temperature compared to total radiative energy from the Sun. Diverging.  

“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwi...

So it appears, based on a preliminary study in Scotland, that the omicron variant of COVID is more transmissible but less severe than the de...

This actually looks like it might be pretty good:

Yesterday saw the second-highest number of new recorded COVID cases since the start of the pandemic, lagging only last winter's peak in ...