Opinion Dominion

*  Christian Porter:   still a political problem for PM Smirko.   Labor is right to be calling for the independent inquiry which was the obv...

Only a week ago, I posted a Tom Scott video about the invention of the microwave oven, and it was soon followed by our home one breaking dow...

I have lifted moderation for Graeme to explain everything about UFOs, in the post made earlier this week.  He is inviting questions...

"Massive news"...

It seems America has become so familiar with mass shootings - particularly workplace ones by disgruntled employees - that they just don'...

A somewhat interesting finding: Cities have their own distinct microbial fingerprints  When Chris Mason’s daughter was a toddler, he watched...

I'm not sure that Ross Douthat does all that great a job of explaining it clearly enough without the jargon, but I think his basic poin...

I have not let through any Graeme Bird comments for quite a while now, but he can't take a hint and is still making appearances in mode...

An article at Vox argues that giving up beef, but at the cost of eating more chicken, results in a net increase in animal suffering.   Meat...

In other things with counter-intuitive results : A new study, published in Lancet Psychiatry , examines the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic...

Hey, this is an interesting short item at The Conversation about how medieval smart Christians  understood that lunar and solar eclipses wer...

I find myself sympathetic to this take on China by David Frum :  the West is over-estimating its strength, and in a way that may be harmful...

I would have thought climbers would have been more sensible about this: A coronavirus outbreak on Mount Everest has infected at least 100 ...

Well, this Tom Scott video, which features a short interview with the (still sharp) James Lovelock (age 101) was very interesting:   Did I...

If you have watched the 60 Minutes interview I linked to a few posts ago, or one of the other interviews David Fravor has given elsewhere, y...