Quark Soup by David Appell

As L noted , there is currently an increase in cases in Ontario. Ontario has an excellent data page with lots of interesting graphs that is...

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Worrisome--weekly COVID case numbers have stopped falling in both the US and Canada, but that trend has reversed in the EU:

*relatively Both of the Earth's polar regions had a heatwave over the weekend: +30°C in the north and +40°C in Antarctica. Here's a...

Motherhood. Ukraine, Europe, 2022 pic.twitter.com/LGyG6pIbBM — Kateryna_Kruk (@Kateryna_Kruk) March 19, 2022

Excited to announce I'll be moving to @Penn as endowed Presidential Distinguished Professor, heading up new "Penn Center for Sc...

There's really no other conclusion to make than the headline to this post.   The governors of red states, by their lax policy choi...

The clip is better when it loops, which I can't seem to arrange here.  I guess you need to be a Pittsburgh Penguins fan -- the Phila...

 Global price of wheat, percent increase over the last month:  The nominal price is in Euros/kg. What will hurt more, the price of wheat or ...

I keep reading claims that Biden is blocking energy development in the United States. For example, this is from the Wall Street Journal , v...

I found this to be a very interesting and informative article in Politico interviewing Fiona Hill, a Russia expert who has studied Putin f...

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...