Quark Soup by David Appell

For only the 16th time in NHL history , a goalie scored a goal.  Two days ago, Linus Ullmark of the Boston Bruins put on in in the last minu...

In an article about the loss of ice for skating in New England, the Washington Post  wrote:  Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Main...

 It's a crime this band never made it. Just got my external Bose speaker working again. Nice.

"The richest 1 percent of people on Earth made almost two-thirds of the new wealth created since the pandemic began, Oxfam said in a re...

Sea-ice extent in the Arctic was 3rd-lowest for Januarys, starting in 1979. For the Antarctic it was the lowest ever for Januarys.  But the ...

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...