Opinion Dominion

I only started watching The Big Bang Theory a few months ago in re-runs,but I have to say, I find much of it very funny. There's not m...

The first of Kevin McCloud's 2 part doco "Slumming It," in which he spends a fortnight living with families in the middle of ...

The BBC has a detailed story about the surprising strong return of sockeye salmon to their spawning rivers in Canada this year.  Last year ...

*  There’s always someone in the family who has an unusual conversion.  Tony Blair’s sister in law has had a conversion experience in Iran:...

Look, if people grow up in a snowy country, skiing is an unobjectionable past time.  But in Australia, where (if you live outside of Sydney ...

There was a story in the SMH yesterday which is notable for the fine sense of understatement in the final line.   First, I’ll edit the even...

I’m going to be pretty busy this week, and really should try to impose a ban on myself using the internet. But such attempts usually fail, ...

At the University of Arizona, they're figuring out designs for hydroponic, easily transported greenhouse systems for growing vegetables ...

There's a short interview with Sam Harris at New Scientist , in which he's talking about his new book in which he argues that morali...

No, no, I'm not having them personally, but if you are interested in a very detailed examination of the characteristics of the way peopl...

Psychology Today notes that there is soon to be published evidence of people having a small, but apparently consistent, ability to be influ...

There's a good article in the New York Times at the moment by Frans de Waal about the evolution of morals as a mammalian thing. He mai...

Has anyone else noticed how, while Tony Abbott has been doing things like travelling the world, shooting off  guns and his mouth, and changi...

Maybe he’s had some media attention here before – but if so I’ve missed it. In any event,  here’s the great story (in the Christian Scienc...