Opinion Dominion

The Vertical Farm Project - Agriculture for the 21st Century and Beyond... This idea (to start seriously developing farms in high rise build...

So, there's a site that posts some of the US late night talk show jokes. Neat. Here's David Letterman on Paris getting out of jai...

Egypt bans female circumcision after death of 12-year-old girl | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited The numbers for female circumcision in...

How an American program bridged the gap between China's divided Catholics. - By Adam Minter - Slate Magazine The situation with Chinese ...

Why computers can’ t surpass Go and collect $1 million -Times Online Well, that's something I hadn't heard before: ...there is one g...

You've got to read this. Professional lefty panic merchant author Richard Flanagan has a "Comment is Free" article in The Gu...

New Scientist Space Blog: Have researchers found the Tunguska crater? As the article indicates, there are many reasons to be very sceptical ...

Technology Review: Artificial Intelligence Is Lost in the Woods This is a good article from an "anti-cognitivist", who thinks AI r...

Suicide | Elusive, but not always unstoppable | Economist.com The Economist has a good piece about suicide, and the wildly varying factors t...

Pixar's new film Ratatouille (which has not yet opened in the States) is receiving very positive early reviews . I saw the trailer for...

The Spectator.co.uk Follow the link above for an article about a woman who spent 3 months as an undercover reporter who joined the Scientolo...

Brisbane has now had about 24 hours of continual, light to moderate, rain. While my guess is that it is still not going to add all that mu...

Yes, the universe looks like a fix. But that doesn't mean that a god fixed it Former Aussie resident Paul Davies has a neat summary of ...

Town at the coalface in fear of overflow | Indigenous Welfare | The Australian The mayor of the Northern Territory town of Katherine notes t...

Libs are making it up | The Australian Your Say Blog Let's see. Howard and Costello say they are sick of Keating claiming sole credit fo...

Japan's universities fighting to attract students The competition amongst universities in Japan for new students means offering some lux...

Energy crisis cannot be solved by renewables, oil chiefs say - Times Online Some pessimism from the oil and energy industry: Shell’s chief g...

The peripatetic Antony Lowenstein has turned up talking in the Guardian about a recent visit in Iran. To paraphrase that line from Grapes ...

* A fascinating story on what it is like to visit North Korea was on Foreign Correspondent this week. If you missed it, there's rep...

Well, the media and blogs in Australia are running hot today on John Howard's sudden announcement of drastic measures to help stop child...