Opinion Dominion

Yeah, I need lessons...   Update:  Here's a second attempt:  

An amusing read here about a theft problem of C18th England - those stupid wigs of the era were the target of thieves.

Former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean says the coming Trump presidency has literally been giving him nightmares: He would wake in th...

I've never been that interested in logic as a topic per se , and this article on the rise and fall of logic in history helps explain wh...

There was a really good explanation on Radio National's breakfast show this morning about how the complicated effect of renewable energ...

I think I spotted this on Twitter - Piketty and others have launched a the World Wealth & Income Database which lets you look at, and fi...

I've taken to trying the cheap-ish Spanish cava available at our run-of-the-mill liquor outlets, and I have to say, it compares very fa...

Well, this is a tricky issue to deal with. Is watching porn in public properly viewed as harassment?    I am sympathetic to the feminist...

Further to my post about Rogue One - I see that Guardian readers by and large agree with me that the digital resurrection of Peter Cushing...

Slate has an article about rising rates of sexually transmitted diseases in the US, particularly amongst gay and bisexual men, and looks at ...

Good post at Real Climate about how climate change deniers are willingly fooled by charlatans.  Unfortunately, it seems that once you rea...

This factoid turned up somewhere I was browsing recently, although I see it first got publicity back in 2014.  Not sure, but I think I misse...

Watched 2013's Now You See Me on free to air TV last Friday.   Some observations: *  talk about your "high concept" movie w...

That's interesting.  (The astute reader might consider this redundant - I pretty rarely post items that are not of interest to me.)  I...

I finally caught up with Rogue One yesterday. I think it's very competent, and very watchable, perhaps without being particularly mem...