Opinion Dominion

Gravitational waves: A triumph for big science - BBC News I thought this explanation of how the gravity wave detection was achieved is clea...

Unlike some people, I tend to read some reviews of movies before I see them.  Hence I know that I won't be going to see Marvel's Dea...

China's curious cult of the mango - BBC News Gee, the BBC website has a knack for bringing us obscure and odd bits of history from 20th...

Emissions reduction: Scrutinize CO2 removal methods : Nature News & Comment Not a bad article here, looking at some old (and new) ideas...

I hadn't read anything about the CSIRO Chief Executive Larry Marshal until his decision to cut hard into his organisation's climat...

State governments are about to hike up taxes A good, clear column from Peter Martin about how the Commonwealth is leaving it up to the Stat...

Maybe this was understood by others before now, but until this morning I didn't understand why some seemed concerned about on going low ...

Poor old Lionel Shriver, the American (female) author who is usually pretty well reviewed, has written an op-ed piece in the New York Times ...

Everyone knows that the Republicans make stupid statements about "socialised health care", and Ted Cruz repeated the old memes onl...

I see that the Senator Blofeld Party recently had its national conference , with speakers including former Laborite (now conservative friend...

In China, gays say life has changed much for the better - CSMonitor.com If there is significant cultural change in China on the matter of ...

Remember in 2013 I posted about the floods in northern India?    OK, well I did.  Go have a look. Anyway, receiving no attention whatsoeve...

Has anyone else noticed how cheap and delicious this summer's stone fruit seem to be?  My wife bought an enormous cheap tray of yellow n...