Quark Soup by David Appell

I came across this chart of the locations of suicide jumps on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, from Wikipedia : This is strictly a t...

Mostly recovered since the depth of the pandemic, but still not great.  Here's the federal deficit at any point in time for the prior 12...

 Items I found interesting: songbirds reach 90% of their adult weight 10 days after they're born. (Via The Genius of Birds by Jennifer ...

I've been avoiding Faulkner for a few decades, ever since I struggled through the first section of The Sound of the Fury , which is told...

The Hadley Central England Temperature (HadCET) set a record high in 2022. The record  -- the longest instrumental record in the world -- co...

"The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than ...

And Then There's Physics   reports that Victor Venema had died.  That's sad and a loss for the climate community, and decency in g...

 ....in global grain production per capita. Almost looks permanent. Data: Global grain production  (Statistica) World Population  (Fred)

US just reached 100 million cumulative cases of COVID-19. Daily cases are growing here but not yet too bad. Still, I've started wea...

Source: NSIDC

On the other hand, here ChatGPT makes an egregious arithmetic error. Surprising. And scary. Makes it impossible to believe any nonobvious c...

 Here's a pretty good joke written by ChatGDP , an artifical intelligence that gives answers to submitted questions.  Via a column by P...

Cool. I love how the Milky Way stays in place. Photographer uses a gyroscopic camera to capture a video of the earth’s rotation.. 🌎 🎥 I...

 He had sailed for two hours, resting in the stern and sometimes chewing a bit of the meat from the martin, trying to rest and to be strong,...

The Guardian : Choosing to rehash the plot of a film he said he recently watched late at night, whose title he remembered as “Fright Night, ...

 I might now like it. It might just be a recovery from the pandemic. But it's true: Data via EIA .

Source.

Hershel Walker, campaigning yesterday : "Now let me tell you this here: If we was ready for the green agenda, I'd raise my hand rig...