Ghulf Genes

It took a while this winter. The first big snow came yesterday. All earlier attempts by our local Winter Fairy to produce the first genuine ...

The biggest challenge of global warming is, indeed, that it is global . Its effects are quite easy to document these days with photographs—...

The German Gustav Spörer (1822-1885), who had studied mathematics and astronomy, began as a school teacher but then, at age 36, turned to a...

Back toward the end of April of this year, I posted the temperature in Detroit on April 29 for a decade ( link ). My source for these data w...

Late-night Brigitte left a link that early-riser yours-truly read this morning. That story—and all the others referenced here—are from the ...

ABC news made me choke on my just-taken sip of coffee in a segment they based on a Guardian story. The YouTube version of the ABC’s coverage...