Opinion Dominion

I'd been looking at Google maps and pondering places around Brisbane I had never been to, and settled on Jacobs Well - a small spot on t...

Sea level fall defies climate warnings | The Australian The defiantly transparent attempts to twist stories which do not contradict climat...

This article in the SMH today , about the sharply divided media coverage of the US presidential election, was a good read. One thing I kno...

Has Hollywood Murdered The Movies? | The New Republic Wow.  David Denby must have been working on this essay about what has gone wrong wit...

Japan's NTT breaks fibre optic data speed record  Japan's incumbent telecommunications carrier, NTT, is claiming a telecommunicat...

A column in the Washington Post puts the problems with Romney squarely on where his party has gone: Why won’t Romney, an intelligent man, ...

Maritime and tide This short article in The Age talks about some of the history of Williamstown, which is pretty much my favourite part of...

BBC News - 'Scar free healing' in mice may give clues to human skin repair, says study There was a report just a day or two ago th...

Climate change already harming the global economy - environment - 26 September 2012 - New Scientist I remain very skeptical that reliable ...

Short Sharp Science: Newly spotted comet may outshine the full moon These predictions when new comets are spotted so far out are not at al...

Exercise increases life span (Science Alert) Yes, but so might castration , and I wouldn't enjoy that either.

First, I noticed that the Courier Mail website this morning has a headline that is utterly at odds with the contents of the story: How...

Andrew Glikson from ANU has a new article up at The Conversation, arguing that there is ample evidence of an increase in the number of anom...

Why doesn't Roger Scruton want to be labelled as "of the right"? Well,  England has still got something going for it when pe...

Christof Koch, Robert Sawyer: Could the Internet ever become conscious? - Slate Magazine If memory serves me right, I think I suggested to...