Opinion Dominion

I didn't go looking for this story, honest.  (I was in fact reading about The Box Trolls' Oscar nomination, and the Laika studio is ...

Backreaction: Do we live in a computer simulation? Good post by the best active physics blogger that I know... Update :  I'm sure th...

Bitcoin revealed: a Ponzi scheme for redistributing wealth from one libertarian to another - The Washington Post

So the government has given up on the bulk billing attack after all.  It must have been 9th (or 8th?) December that it was announced by A...

Lack of exercise responsible for twice as many deaths as obesity

The Train of the Future Might Be Battery-Powered - CityLab I'm surprised I had not heard of this before: This week, the U.K. has bee...

I was somewhat amused to see at JB Hi Fi the other day a display stand of new DVDs (one containing the kid's movie The Box Trolls, actua...

The math of one-night stands and long-term relationships

I see that an article appeared at Nature Climate Change on Monday with this abstract: Integrated assessment models compare the costs of g...

It seemed to take an inordinate amount of time for the backlash against the government's attack on bulk billing to get into gear, didn...

Charlie Hebdo: No one in Europe is tougher on terror than France. That didn't stop the attacks. Interesting article here on how France ...

I've stumbled across a couple of reviews of a book that came out last year:  Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by France...

Could climate change have played a role in the AirAsia crash? This is not a bad article that deals with turbulence, aircraft and climate ch...

Although it essentially reads like an advertisement for one company's industrial batteries for deployment on the grid, it is still inter...