Opinion Dominion

Could the Higgs mass determine the end of the universe?  According to quantum theory, it’s possible that the lowest energy state of our ...

'Nearby' supermassive black hole rotates at close to the speed of light | Science | guardian.co.uk Phil Plait at Slate gives a bit...

DreamWorks Animation takes $87 million write-down on 'Rise of the Guardians' - latimes.com I promise I'll stop talking about m...

Japan’s prisons: Eastern porridge | The Economist A somewhat interesting look here at how Japanese prisons operate.  (Watch the video too....

Oscars 2013 and Spielberg: The storyteller is part of our cultural DNA - CSMonitor.com A reasonable enough, lengthy article here on Spielb...

Well, at the First Things blog of all places, there's a decent post complaining about the attempts at humour at the Oscars show last nig...

Argo **** yourself: Ben Affleck’s Iran hostage movie is the worst. - Slate Magazine Am I to take it that there is a lot of swearing in thi...

Want to emigrate to Australia? Be warned – it's not 'hot Britain' | Rae Earl | Comment is free | The Guardian You get some pre...

Understanding the recent listeria-linked cheese recall

Weather extremes provoked by trapping of giant waves in atmosphere "An important part of the global air motion in the mid-latitudes o...

Re the Oscar show last night, which I tried to speed up with much use of fast forward on the digital recorder, but still couldn't compre...

In a minor triumph of parental pressure to have a 12 (nearly 13) year old boy see an educational movie that he may well not like, I convince...

We think this is the baby possum which featured with its mother here last year.  He or she now turns up alone: And in other possum ne...

Sorry about that shouty heading, but seriously, just how many repetitions do Australian political journalists and commentators think they ca...

Medieval animal trials: Why they’re not quite as crazy as they sound. - Slate Magazine A sample from this interesting article: Such a...