Opinion Dominion

I've been busy fighting the good fight over at Larvatus Prodeo's latest thread about Dr Haneef, concerning the evidence disclosed ...

TigerHawk In all the kerfuffle within Australia about a certain Indian doctor, it may have gone unnoticed that there is some pretty serious ...

From 'Dutch wives' to old wives | The Japan Times Online The Japanese call sex dolls "dutch wives". The link above mentio...

Travels with Griff Rhys Jones - Times Online Only the other day I wondered what happened to the British comedian Griff Rhys Jones, who I use...

Some more points I want to make about Dr Haneef's case: 1. Talk about not being able to win with journalists no matter what you do. Th...

Medical opinion comes full circle on cannabis dangers You have probably read newspaper reports of this latest study, but the news@nature ver...

Prescribing of antibiotics to children still at a level to cause drug resistance, warn experts From the article: A paper published in 1999 r...

Three die in Branson's space tourism rocket tests This could be one of the shortest commercial tourism ventures ever.

Lefties like to call our PM "the rodent, " as if that is an insult. But really, have a look at this video of an endearing rat: On...

Oscar the cat 'predicts deaths' - World - smh.com.au From the report: Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting wh...

Adolescent rats enjoy cannabis more than their elders - health - 25 July 2007 - New Scientist

Renewable energy could 'rape' nature - earth - 25 July 2007 - New Scientist Environment Quote: Ramping up the use of renewable energ...

Lemon douche is a cervical cancer risk From the report: Lead researcher Dr Atiene Sagay, from Jos University in Nigeria, told the Internatio...

New English PM Gordon Brown is proposing doubling that country's current limit for detaining terror suspects without charge from 28 to ...

Our Far-Flung Correspondents: Swingers: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker This is a long (12 page!) article from the New Yorker about b...

Not Even Wrong - My Life With Stephen Peter Woit's blog (Not Even Wrong) has a very interesting post summarising some of the memoirs of...

Smart, Curious, Ticklish. Rats? - New York Times It is the ongoing duty of this blog to point out the positive features of rats. This New Y...

Ethical shopping is just another way of showing how rich you are George Monbiot may be one of the biggest doomsayers about global warming, ...

Hey, I know it's all statistically irrelevant when you consider a margin of error, but psychologically it is encouraging to see a poll ...

I stumbled across some Muslim blogs on the 'net today, and found this one: "A Muslim Wife" . She lives in Florida, has not be...