Quark Soup by David Appell

Here's a video clip of Paul A.M. Dirac explaining how theoretical physicists worked -- or, at least, how HE worked:   He was British,...

I found an unexpected...issue...with iPhone's Siri when I asked it to do a calculation: It doesn't understand scientific notation.  ...

By Maggie Smith  "Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, i...

Blogger was abandoned by Google a few years ago, and lately it's been getting worse and worse. A lot of problems. It's becoming so b...

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” Ray Bradbury I don't think he wrote this...

-4 to -6 mm/yr in a few places. Some less all across the Gulf Coast, and in many places along the Atlantic coast.        Source:  CNN, 06 Ma...

The PredictIt betting market on the US presidential race:

Thomas Friedman with some pretty sober words in today's NY Times (free link): "But if he [Biden] caps his presidency now, by a...

6:04 pm Pacific Daylight Time - Jesus, Biden sounds old. His voice isn't clear, he sounds almost sick. Not a good look  sound. 6:11 pm -...

Here is China’s Chang’e-6 re-entry capsule, containing about 2 kg of lunar regolith. Landed in inner Mongolia. Just surprised how burned up/...

Now over 900: Death toll from heat at hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia passes 900.... Temperatures hit 51.8°C in Mecca, Islam's holiest c...

“At least 562 people have died during the [2024] haj, according to a Reuters tally based on foreign ministry statements and sources. Egypt a...

I wrote an article for Phys.org: "Uncovering the prolonged cooling events of the Holocene," Phys.org, 6/13/24. https://phys.org/n...

Here's what I posted last night, then accidentally deleted: Here's what they wrote  (it's still up): While London was experienci...

I've been collecting these as I find'em: The mass of all asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is equal to about 3...

Trump: Do you feel the breeze? I don't want anybody going on me. We need every voter. I don't care about you. I just want your vote...

That's 126.1°F. From Agence France-Presse (AFP)  Temperatures in India's capital soared to a national record-high of 52.3 degrees Ce...

Phoenix, Arizona.  Maricopa County in Arizona includes Phoenix and Tempe, and holds 62% of the state's population. From an interesting ...