Opinion Dominion

 Gee, you have to feel that the gig really is up when even Elon Musk approves of a call to slow down AI development over concerns about its...

Of course, there's a heap of stuff being written about the latest concerns about the danger of AI, and AI agents.  But as I was driving ...

I don't pay any real attention to K Pop, despite having watched and acknowledged that K Pop Demon Hunters was pretty enjoyable.  However...

 You know, I have seen articles from time to time over recent years about how mediation doesn't actually work for some people, in that i...

I see that the Bangkok Post ( and elsewhere - the BP story is mostly behind a paywall) is reporting that Thailand now has more than 550,000...

There was some research news about this last year, but Science has got a lengthy article up about the topic now, and it's a good read: P...

I've never really known what Hilbert Space was, exactly.  But I find myself somewhat (or perhaps more accurately, slightly?) better info...

I occasionally watch some Youtube content by Alex O'Connor, but up to now, he has concentrated on Western religion and philosophy.  He i...

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...