Opinion Dominion

Found via Futurismic , here's a post about the potential use of solid state lasers for space propulsion. (It contains a link to this s...

Technology Review has an interesting article on "gen III & IV" reactors, which are basically designed to be simpler and inher...

This Economist blog entry seems to be a good and simple explanation of why any carbon offset scheme is a very dubious exercise. The crucia...

It must be dissection day here. I just stumbled across a review of a biography of an important figure in the history of surgery and dissect...

The Times has an article about an old Japanese guy who talks about his gruesome war time activities: Over the course of four months before...

PhysOrg brings to attention a paper on the black hole information paradox that seems to be important to the issue of whether Hawking Radiat...

For a detailed report on the terrible problem of gender imbalance in India (caused primarily by gender selecting abortion), this Washington ...

There's an interesting piece in the Guardian about the pessimism of the European liberal intelligentsia. I like the last two paragraphs...

From the IHT : Three Frenchmen who lived Saudi Arabia were killed by gunmen Monday in the desert on the side of a road leading to the holy c...

I liked Maxine McKew as a journalist and had no objection to her working for Kevin Rudd. But she's straining the (entirely one way) ...

The Times provides a link to a Memri video in which an Iranian lecturer explains the secret meaning behind Tom & Jerry cartoons. It...

Have a look at this story and video from the LA Times. It seems someone passing by a closed KFC in New York noticed a bunch of rats havin...

The ABC seems to be the only news outlet in Australia reporting this at the moment. Maybe other media will pick it up over the weekend, be...

The science show Catalyst on ABC last night had a story about a Chinese prototype pebble bed reactor. A transcript is available here , but ...

There's a short article here about ideas for early profit from going to the Moon. Nothing too exciting yet. I seem to recall that some...

Each year, my interest in the movies nominated for an Oscar seems to be reaching new lows never before seen. I mean, until perhaps 7 years ...

The BBC reports : Two circus clowns have been shot dead during a performance in the eastern Colombian city of Cucuta, police say.... Local ...

You know something is complicated and "out there" when someone who posts at Cosmic Variance finds it new and hard to fathom. Have...

Former Spook, who has some experience in these matters, has a good post explaining why people should not think there is anything unusual go...

Here's an interesting account of the recent debate at a conference between top cosmologists who take opposing sides on the issue of the...