Quark Soup by David Appell

Here's a chart ( thanks Grok ) showing the sea surface temperature of the Nino3.4 region in the central Pacific Ocean. The SST is goin...

Here are the latest ocean heat content numbers from NOAA , through 1Q2026. Eyeballing, it looks clear that OHC is accelerating for both regi...

This lively woman, Brooke Eby, said she was finally diagnosed with ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease, or, she says, the same disease that Stephe...

Oregon's rainy season--it's really rainy season--is coming up in November and December. It's the only part of winter here I enjo...

Arthur Eddington, physicist and mathematician, wrote : “The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage...

A big dilemma: #NotACoincidence [image or embed] — Michael E. Mann ( @michaelemann.bsky.social ) September 5, 2026 at 8:25 AM Looks li...

NSIDC says that the Arctic's sea ice extent minimum has been reached for the year, 4.60 million square kilometers on Sept 12th. That...

Surprising (to me): Kluth says of the Mercator map, "Greenland is especially exaggerated: It appears to be 14 times larger than all of...

There are 111 data centers in the state of Oregon, as of 2025, consuming 14 TW-hr of electricity last year. That's an hour power consump...

Here's an op-ed in today's New York Times , by Charles A. Kupchan, a professor of international affairs at Georgetown University, a ...

This is a letter the physicist Richard Feynman wrote to his wife 17 months after she passed.  Feynman was a young physicist at Los Alamos, N...

"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." – Carl Sagan Via: "Why Boltzmann Brains ...

I'm a little obsessed with this clip : Posts from the interestingasfuck community on Reddit

Global temperatures: NOAA found August to be the warmest August in their records (which start in 1850), as they did for -July among Julys....

Wow, lots of news today. An AI formalized the proof of the famous Fermat's Last Theorem in 13-million lines of code.  The same AI, Cla...

This is from the Introduction to Tribe . It's about a time Junger was threadbare and hitchhiking in Wyoming, and a homeless-looking man ...

The US was the only country to vote no on this equal area map, which Africans rightly consider the map to more just in showing the continent...

Quantum mechanics has revealed the probabilistic nature of fundamental particles, while Einstein's general relativity describes how t...

King George III of England caused the English colonies in America to rebel by trying to tax them without allowing them a voice in governm...

This guy wants to have his finger on the nuclear button!!