Opinion Dominion

One of the more amusing things on Twitter/X at the moment is the way all of the wildly gullible and very, very serious UFO believers are fre...

The New York Times runs some commentary on the AI bubble situation:  Why the A.I. Boom Is Unlike the Dot-Com Boom. I have heard this argume...

An article at the Washington Post says that while it seems the numbers of religious young adult continue to decline, those left are perhaps...

I'm late to the party, but as many people online have commented, the FIFA hastily invented peace prize (for easily bribed narcissists) h...

I like an essay on the depraved behaviour of the MAGA Right (with respect to their extra-judicial killing of alleged cocaine carriers far at...

Further to my last post, when you go looking for studies on harm from hallucinogens/psychedelics, a hell of a lot of them start with somethi...

Sure, it's interesting that certain hallucinogens (most notably, DMT) produce similar types of peculiar results with most people (see ma...

A review here at the New York Times on the kind of book by an academic that sounds interesting, but which I can tell would take too much dev...

I was always interested in Tom Stoppard, who seemed to be a clever, humane, and curious man.   (I am reminded in his obituaries that he sup...

I've been writing things here for so many years now that I think I start feeling a little, uh,aimless/lacking purpose?, if I don't u...

There seems to be a run of bad luck going on in my family at the moment. Last week, our dog's fondness for certain fertiliser in pots se...

So, the news has even reached the New York Times :  Japan has had a year of many bear attacks, many fatal: Akita Prefecture, home to about 8...

Henry Reynolds is still writing books?   He must be getting on - it seems a couple of decades since he first gained a lot of attention for h...

The article in Fortune it references paints a bleak picture indeed of the state of the farming sector in the US, struggling under Trump...

One of the few benefits of turning 65 is that the Australian government will pay for anyone to get the shingles vaccine.  I got it at the lo...

Quite a good article to be found here at Nature about the fitness influencer craze for recommending super high protein intake.  Some bits: ...

This tweet is from David French, making the point that always comes to my mind when Trump and MAGA hysterics run around claiming America had...

In the New York Times: Despite a decade of social transformation in Saudi Arabia, unwed pregnancy remains a taboo that exists in a legal gr...

After eating quite a lot yesterday, I weighed in at 89.3kg this morning.  Still 4kg down from my starting point a fortnight or so ago.  Yest...