Yesterday the Washington Post published an article on an FDA initiative to limit the amount of salt that could be put in food. This is an interesting policy issue, but it’s not what I want to talk about here. I actually just want to talk about one line from the Post’s article that acted as [...]

I saw this semi-alarming weather warning issued by the Department of Natural Resources for the Madison and southern Wisconsin area:

… AIR QUALITY WATCH FOR SOUTHERN WISCONSIN IN EFFECT SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY… NOVEMBER 21 TO 23…
A STAGNANT AND INCREASINGLY DIRTY AIR MASS WILL INTENSIFY OVER THE UPPER MIDWEST DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. THERE IS A [...]

There was a lot of media coverage about the Large Hadron Collider startup last year, with many people freaking about about black holes, strangelets, and magnetic monopoles ripping apart the universe as we know it. As you may remember, the system was shut down before it could ever perform any collisions due to a fault [...]