Quark Soup by David Appell

What other countries does this remind you of?

“Psychologists are in danger of becoming the priests of the industrial system.” — Erich Fromm Very perspicacious. I would ...

 I just can't help myself this time of year when notebooks are 3 for $1.

I couldn't resist analyzing the numbers in the peak oil demand projection chart in the previous post . The peaks are at about 200 qBTU (...

Trump, of course, is angry that many groups are predicting global oil demand will peak by 2030. Or maybe has already. That's not what th...

Spock: They’ve become used to episodes of violence for centuries. The true cost of a civil war is abstract. La'An Noonien-Singh: Not b...

I'm just posting this song because I really like it. And because I could have become the narrator of the song if I wasn't born intel...

Saw this chart today on Paul Krugman's substack : Electricity prices under Trump:   So up 6%. US inflation is only up 1%. As ...

BTW, there are some interesting comments underneath Climate Town's post with the graph I just posted .  1) NASA's data starts in ...

Climate Brief has this graph from Climate Town : That's quite startling, to say the least; it's downright frightening, to say the m...

From Singularity Sky , a 2003 sci-fi novel by Charles Stross: "If Burya had anything to do with it, they wouldn’t find anyone willing t...

Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism, from her book The Origins of Totalitarianism . Her writing is quoted with yellow lines to the left; in bet...

[Title from Ken Caldeira on Bluesky .]   There are so many moronic things happening in America you almost can't help believing Trump ...

Arctic sea ice extent (SIE) is closing in on a new low for its 12-month moving average: The previous low happened in March of 2021. Maybe it...

Some very good recent posts by The Onymous Guy that I found informative: Analysis of the 2024 Southern Hemisphere Ozone Hole , July 30, 2025...

I wasn't aware of this--China's population has been slightly decreasing since 2021, according to the US FRED database via the World...

Andrew Dessler's post mentioned below is here . "Next time someone says, 'Germany installed a lot of wind and solar and it’...

This is just as outrageous as my post yesterday . Today the Trump administration released an "A.I. Action Plan" that ( free NYT l...

Maybe we can call what Trump is doing "climate cleansing."  I like that. It fits.

This is absolutely obnoxious ( NY Times ): Trump is trying to gaslight everyone--absolutely everyone--by pretending that climate change is n...