Opinion Dominion

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

The antimatter truck

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Well, what do you know?    Nature reports that a truck has taken some antimatter for a ride: On 24 March, a team at CERN, the European part...
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Explaining 100% support

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Jim Geraghty in WAPO makes a decent enough point:  we shouldn't be surprised if polling shows virtually 100% support for Trump from MAGA...
Monday, March 23, 2026

The very rich, but temporary, city

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There's an interesting opinion piece about Dubai in the New York Times , questioning whether (or perhaps, how easily) the city may recov...

Strange clerical sex scandals have been around a long time...

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This is from a review in the New York Times of a book about a clerical sex scandal from Kant's home town Konigsberg (which happened in ...
Sunday, March 22, 2026

The LLM and leads to deeper reading

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I have to admit, LLMs can be very good at suggesting where to go for deeper reading on a topic.  For example, this interview in the New York...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

A dragon, adjusted (and the man who painted it)

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The reason I say "adjusted" is because I was pleased to find that Claude (free version) was able to improve the original, which ha...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Strange conspiracy bedmates

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I'm not sure I have ever commented on - or if I did, only briefly - the "Trump faked his assassination attempt" conspiracy the...
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As I suspected....

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Cannabis is not an effective treatment for common mental health conditions, says review International researchers find ‘very little evidence...
Monday, March 16, 2026

Time to whine about Hollywood, again...

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I haven't watched the Oscars, but have to say, my interest level (and, I suspect, that of most of the world) regarding nearly all of the...

Let me help you fall asleep

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Like most people, I occasionally have trouble falling asleep, and so I was interested in this story at the Washington Post about a technique...

Let them fight, Part 2

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People used to say that the biggest haters in politics were Lefties, against other Lefties.   Ladies and gentlemen, let me present MAGA infl...
Friday, March 13, 2026

There's your problem

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 Much of it is behind a paywall, but this article at Nature is interesting: A species of gut bacteria that proliferates as mice get older p...
Thursday, March 12, 2026

In search of good news

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I'm told that petrol is selling at $2.50 per litre, the highest price since I can't recall when.  Thanks, Donald. Oh, so poor widdle...
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Market manipulation is obvious

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The spectacularly corrupt Trump administration is at it again:  US official: ‘Not true’ Navy successfully escorted oil tanker through Strait...
Monday, March 09, 2026

One suspects some heated arguments are happening in Washington

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Two stories at Axios.  First: The U.S. and Israel have discussed sending special forces into Iran to secure its stockpile of highly enric...
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