Opinion Dominion

I'm feeling a little out of sorts lately. It's probably the spring time return of early morning sun. My body clock seems to have s...

Air India pilots, crew come to blows at 30,000 ft A mid-air incident that would sound a little improbable in a comedy: The cabin crew allege...

Cockroach inspires heart created by Indian doctor Sujoy Guha - Times Online This story starts with a very unexpected claim: A ground-breakin...

This has been a chronologically confusing week. First, discovering that James Bond is much younger than me made me feel old; but by midwee...

I can't seem to link directly to the story, but have a look at today's Japan Times [sorry, photo seems to have gone from here, see ...

Fruit fly sperm makes females do housework after sex (Then again, maybe the female fruit fly keeps going back to the mate and saying "g...

Major quakes can weaken seismic faults far away, scientists say I always thought that it seemed that major earthquakes in distant locations ...

Decapitation: School fete turns violen: Police in Papua New Guinea are hunting for a notorious criminal after violence at a school fete left...

I noted yesterday (in a report about the Hugh Jackman and the mobile phone incident) that his co-star, Daniel Craig, is only 41. Wikipedia...

Gore Vidal: ‘We’ll have a dictatorship soon in the US’ - Times Online Is it possible for Gore to sound any crankier? A sample: America ha...

Gulfnews: Saudi Arabia flogs teenagers after rare riots in eastern region Saudi Arabia flogged a group of teenagers after a rare riot in the...

Younger onset dementia - Health Report Here's an interesting article which deals with a type of dementia I hadn't heard of before: ...

Andy Williams accuses Barack Obama of following Marxist theory The only reason I link to this is because of my surprise that he is still ali...

Scrubbing the Atmosphere - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com Apparently, an article in Science notes that research into technology to remove CO2...

In my absence, I didn't get to mention how surprisingly pretty Iceland in summer looked in last week's Foreign Correspondent. It ...

Coming Out in Middle School - NYTimes.com I haven't yet spotted any conservative comment on this lengthy NYT Magazine article about the...

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Are Magnetically Levitating 'Sky Pods' the Future of Travel? Of course it's a good idea: it's futuristic, involves levitati...

I had often wondered who had invented the suitcase with wheels, as it has always seemed to me that he or she deserved fame, riches and the t...

Paul Sheehan makes some very good points which I had not realised about Australia's growing population, and the Rudd government's r...