Opinion Dominion

Recovery From Schizophrenia: An International Perspective. Apparently, according to a WHO international study, living in poorer countries gi...

Bring back the Greek gods - Los Angeles Times I missed this a couple of weeks ago - the Los Angeles Times runs an article arguing that polyt...

Mangroomer DIY Electric Back Hair Shaver - wax-free smoothness at a stroke - The Red Ferret Journal

It's rare that I get to eat out at somewhere new that I feel I can wholeheartedly recommend. Today, my wife and I tried out a "Euro...

Spotted this in a New Yorker review of a couple of books about the history of cars: In 1921, a team of G.M. researchers looking for a way t...

There are two anecdotes about Eric Clapton which I hadn't heard before in the Salon review of his autobiography. (Mind you, I have nev...

Some random thoughts: 1. why hasn't some Liberal sympathiser put up on Youtube the video snippet I saw this week of Maxine McKew getti...

What is it with ABC journalists wasting time in interviews with John Howard about transition arrangements with Peter Costello? Kerry O'B...

Brain imaging seen leading to more false alarms | Science | Reuters Turns out that if you have an MRI of your brain for no particular reason...

Here's a short but interesting article from The Economist on what it's like to visit North Korea as a tourist. Don't expect muc...

The Airbus A380, 'flying villages' and the future of flight - International Herald Tribune The arrival of the Airbus A380 has receiv...

Dubai and rape: French youth tells his story - International Herald Tribune A pretty appalling story about Dubai and its criminal legal system.

[0710.3395] If LHC is a Mini-Time-Machines Factory, Can We Notice? Readers may recall that the Large Hadron Collider (due to start up next y...

X-Files stars, crew reunite for secretive sequel | Entertainment | Television | Reuters Who knows, maybe it will be OK. I wouldn't hold...

Michael Palin will be in Brisbane for a talk at City Hall next Thursday 8 Nov at 6.30pm. This seems to be a pretty well kept secret by Dymoc...

The show Cats is the lamest, most tedious excuse for a musical ever written or performed. (But I should point out that I have never seen a...

How Tibetans Enjoy the High Life: Scientific American Here's an interesting story on how it is that Tibetans manage to live in such thin...

North American X-15 Downloadable Cardmodel Found via Air & Space Magazine , which is full of articles this month about the X-15.

Comedy Central: Shows - The Colbert Report At the website, go and scroll down the video list and check out the video of Colbert's Absint...

774 arrests in China over safety - International Herald Tribune Doesn't China have ways of dealing with this problem other than via arrest?