Opinion Dominion

Large Hadron Collider stalled again... thanks to chunk of baguette - Times Online The rehabilitation of the beleaguered Large Hadron Collid...

carbon trading 'the next Sub Prime' - Friends of the Earth Australia Friends of the Earth have come out with a long report critical ...

Who knew that the Chinese were such fans of the host of Iron Chef?: (Photo found on today's version of The Independent website, but ac...

Maine Voters Repeal Law Allowing Gay Marriage This seems to be attracting much less attention in Australia than the Californian Proposition ...

Spencer on Lindzen and Choi climate feedback paper I don't usually comment on the minute detail of some AGW debates, as they can get ver...

Steve Martin is the Oscars host with the most | Xan Brooks | Film | guardian.co.uk He may have forgotten how to make a good movie, but I agr...

Suicide letter couple found dead I don't know why people who are over-enthusiastic about suicide think they make good advocates for euth...

I was deeply suspicious when I saw Scientific American running an article that claims the entire world's energy can be from renewable so...

The Sydney Morning Herald carries a short story on a New Zealand study indicating that super high speed broadband is not the economic powerh...

The One Argument Ayn Rand Couldn't Win -- New York Magazine A pretty amusing review of a new Ayn Rand biography. Some lines I liked: &qu...

Overweight have less sex

Where do ghosts come from? - New Scientist A good article here on the idea that magnetic fields can cause eerie sensations that are interpre...

Theme-park dummy trick becomes teleconference tool Have a look at the video. I reckon it is pretty effective at giving the impression of a...

Itch: A symptom of occult disease Stumbling around the internet looking for something else, I found the above article. It caught my attentio...

China strives to pleasure sex-starved | The Australian They could've chosen a better headline, but the article is a pretty interesting o...

Elina-shatkin's list of L.A. Halloween Events 2009 As you can see from the above list, they certainly take Halloween as a very, very big...

Trick or Tract: Satan, Jack Chick, and Other Halloween Horrors If ever you had something even vaguely to do with some fundamentalist Christi...

IVF mother: 'I love him to bits. But he's probably not mine' | Life and style | The Guardian There are, according to this story,...

James Cameron and “Avatar” : The New Yorker You only have to read the first couple of pages of this l-l-long profile of director James Came...

Did Portnoy's Complaint deserve the "Booker Prize"? Mary Beard in The Times writes about a recent literary festival in which s...