Opinion Dominion

There's a very long article in the New York Times looking at the vexing question of why birth rates have tumbled so dramatically, virtu...

Today I learnt, via France 24 no less, that McDonalds second largest global market is actually France.  Quelle horreur!   The whole video is...

This article is pretty light on details, but interesting nonetheless:  A promising new therapy for depression focuses on finding paths to jo...

Last week, the New York Times ran an article covering what I had said before - that it was very weird/peculiar how the American Right had e...

People with heart disease who received a shingles vaccine had nearly half the rate of serious cardiac events a year later compared with tho...

Max Boot at the Washington Post: The Trump administration ramps up its lawlessness on the seas  The biggest worry is that the Trump administ...

The BBC has a report on some cases of AI induced psychosis which they have investigated.  The reason given as to why AIs do this sometimes ...

*      I learned this morning that the Saudis tried to kick start a home grown international film industry by making a film with Western act...

I've said before I like big statues:  they're inherently awesome.    Here's a Buddhist one I don't recall seeing before, of ...

*  I mentioned recently how the X "For You" feed had gone all weird, with "inspirational" personal stories and such like...

There's a story at the Washington Post which I will gift link:  A Trump-branded nuclear power project thrilled investors. Then came the ...

So, I was listening to another podcast episode from Tricycle on the weekend, and it featured an American who has long been a Buddhist monk i...

From the Washington Post: “I’ve studied assassinations, and I must tell you, the most impactful people, the people that do the most ... they...

There's an article in the New York Times that has a positive take on China advancing into open source AI.   The only thing I find a bi...

Speaking of social media, as I was in the last post, I mainly look at X to see what the mad Right (and the appalling Elon Musk) is telling i...

*   Ooh!  A couple of years ago I posted about enjoying following Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox on Youtube, and even said that I c...

I didn't realise that the housing situation in Brisbane at the end of WW2 was as dire as this article at The Conversation indicates , wi...

Joe Rogan will probably start gushing over Trump again because he got him to sign a (possibly fairly meaningless?) directive to get his for...

I haven't tried a new recipe for a while, and I liked the look of a Middle Eastern dish called chicken or beef kabsa.  As one site says:...