Quark Soup by David Appell

Sharing my wife’s words pic.twitter.com/LZNTvCQjqd — eduardo (@celquie) February 24, 2022

This morning I heard an NPR host--don't know if he was national or local--summarizing their upcoming news, call Russian's invasion o...

From FRED : *if you're poor or lower middle class (global). If so, too bad, so sad for you. You should have arranged to be born somewh...

Here's a dolphin and whale doing...something quite different, according to this expert, which we'd like to interpret as a cute, cudd...

“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.” –– John Kenneth Galbraith

Notable climate scientist Andrew Dessler just recently was on Joe Rogan's Podcast: I just learned of this and haven't listened ...

At first glance this was surprising to me--I thought it should be the opposite, with the highest incomes having the lowest COVID case counts...

I think this guy makes a lot of sense. I read someone who said we've had great success in running a marathon but why stop before we'...

How long until these things are racing up and down the Appalachian Trail to see which can do it the fastest, and can they beat the fastest ...

Macron should have insisted on the chair down to the far left and not taken no for an answer.

I'm starting to lose the thread of what's going on in Canada, except it seems disappointingly American, minus the military wannabes ...

Update: Here's the true story of this train and its rescue, and more pictures. -- I found this picture on, I think, YouTube. All I know...

I'm not going to watch the Winter Olympics on television. A big reason is that I don't have television. Or at least cable TV. I do...

It's the All-Star break in the NHL, also what was to be the break for guys to go play in the Olympics, until it was decided they wouldn...

Here's video from someone who was only 73 km away from the Jan 15th Tonga eruption. Actually it's isn't as hair-raising as I mi...

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. ...