Opinion Dominion

It's been a while since we heard about a major Chinese food safety scandal, but here we go: Chinese authorities confirmed earlier this...

Two things: a.      a lengthy article at NYT   talking about various bad or highly questionable things that have happened at various places ...

Seen at the New York Times: Mount Everest Base Camp Is Melting. Human Urine Is a Contributor. More than 6,000 liters are produced daily by t...

The terrible flash flood videos from Nepal are naturally reminding people of the warnings that have been around for a couple of decades now ...

I'm not the sort of person who ever gave all that much thought to Dolly Parton.  She was pretty remarkable, though, how she defied your ...

Here's an interesting, (though of course, inconclusive) study that gives some reason to be skeptical of those overstating the value of p...

*  The Netflix historical mockumentary comedy series 1670 (made in Poland of all places) only recently came to my attention.  I was not sur...

An article at the BBC talks about the rise of young people preferring illegally obtained prescription drugs to alcohol: To enjoy a night ou...

Another interesting piece from today's NYT is this one: I’m a Psychiatrist. I’m Hearing Something New From Young Women. The writer has g...

The New York Times has a charming article about research into animals (or at least, primates) that seem to enjoy treating certain other anim...

Hey, I didn't realise that a Reuters online subscription was so modestly priced (AUD $6 a month, cancel anytime), so I'll give it a ...

I finally got around to watching the recent Korean movie Good News,  which is probably the only (mainly) comedic film ever made about an air...

*  Donald Trump; * Donald Trump's cowardly, dishonest and greedy enablers both in politics and in media; * the culture wars; * the way t...