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Reviewing "Shutter Island" , Lane complains: The final twist is a fizzle; not because we see it coming (though we do) but because ...

Yang Guoxiang | Military Aviation | Air & Space Magazine A good interview here with a Chinese pilot who, in 1971, couldn't get a tes...

I don't recall reading any Australian reviews of this 2008 book about the role of Australians in post WW II Japan, but it sounds pretty...

This is not a new conclusion, but it would appear to be based on new modelling, and is worth bearing in mind: The sun goes through an 11-ye...

Jesus’s trip to Stonehenge and other bizarre notions - Catholic Herald Online This is a pretty amusingly savage review of a book that promot...

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According to the ABC : The lentil is commonly associated with the Indian dish dhal, flatulence and Neil the Hippy from the BBC comedy The Yo...

At least in Victoria , putting solar on your roof top has not been going smoothly: The Victorian Energy and Water Ombudsman, Fiona McLeod, s...

Nuclear Power Plants Cost Too Much To Build This article, and the comments that follow in rebuttal, makes for an interesting read on the iss...

BBC News - Why is the car giant Toyota not Toyoda? It takes a long time for them to explain, but it comes down to this: "In 1936, the c...

Greeks mention the war in bitter German attack Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos said Germany had no right to reproach Greece for any...

Disaster Awaits Cities in Earthquake Zones - NYTimes.com Andrew Revkin is writing on more than just climate change now, it seems, with a lon...

Why Clint Eastwood Is Ridiculously Overrated - The Daily Beast I feel the same about Eastwood as I do about Mel Gibson: nothing they have e...

Rising carbon snuffs coral In a large experiment on Australia’s Heron Island, the team simulated CO2 and temperature conditions predicted f...

BBC News - Whale kills SeaWorld trainer during Orlando show The first report of this I saw this morning said it wasn't during a show. T...

A new religious opinion from Saudi Arabia: Saudi religious figure Shaikh Abdul Rahman Al Barrak on Tuesday said that the mixing of genders ...

The mystery of the 100-tonne whale | Environment | The Guardian From the above article talking about a stranded whale in England: The carcas...

Ministers admit failure over cutting ‘shameful’ teenage pregnancies - Times Online Ministers accept that they cannot meet Tony Blair’s targ...

Pebble-bed nuclear reactor gets pulled : Nature News South Africa has stopped funding for the development of its own pebble bed reactor. (A...