Quark Soup by David Appell

There are very close to one mole of stars in the universe: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cm8F_iHDj_a/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY%3D (Sorry, emb...

Number of humans who have ever lived ≈ 100 billion   Number of stars in our galaxy ~ 100 billion Number of galaxies in the universe ~ 100 bi...

 Via Wired .  This are all fake, produced by AI:  Making pictures of Trump getting arrested while waiting for Trump's arrest. pic....

La Fin du monde ("The end of the world") is a woodcut by the French astronomer and author  Camille Flammarion .  In the lower left...

I received an email from Google (who owns Blogger) about my July 2019 blog post "I Am Now Too Old to Use the Internet" . Your post...

This is International Pi Day (3-14, get it?), which personally never excited me much, although the number itself is interesting per se.  Any...

In 2010 dollars: About three times higher since I was born. Enough?

2012 dollars: (I really should fix that.)  

Unemployed per job openings, US:  

This 2019 video of a world record set in the indoor mile really shows how incredibly fast these runners run:   I mean, I could never h...

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...