Opinion Dominion

I mentioned small nuclear power generators once already today, but I didn't realise that a good, fairly recent article had just appeared...

I’m not sure how blogging will go this week. I’ve got a major change to software and the office network going on, as well as a Great Big Ta...

Spied in the yard today: (My camera’s not working as well as it used to, but it wasn’t an expensive one in the first place.)

A somewhat interesting article in the New York Times suggests that, once you heat them up in frying, even the experts can't taste the d...

I've been mentioning pteropods here in the context of ocean acidification for many years. Here's a good Scientific American blog pos...

Australian research has come up with a possible treatment for high blood pressure that resists other treatment. It’s called a “simple” pro...

1. the phrase “mucous coccoon” (although your average marine biologist has heard it before) 2. China will soon be building its own ge...

A bishop at a conference : Social media is proving itself to be a force with which to be reckoned. If not, the church may be facing as grea...

I don’t often highlight “stupid political correctness for Muslims” stories lately, but this one is a particularly egregious example : A...

The most interesting thing in last week's episode of Last Chance to See was the close up look at the Humboldt squid. I had read somethi...

Quite a surprise to read on the BBC about volunteers who are letting themselves catch malaria in the lab in order to test a new vaccine: ...

I can’t help but post again about the erratic Judith Curry. As I noted before, she’s off to Washington soon to give evidence at a congress...

A study of what happened with increasing CO2 and higher temperatures 40 million years ago indicates that the CO2 came first, not vice versa...

Michael Stutchbury gives an account of why electricity prices have been going up, and why a carbon tax would not add to that process as muc...