Opinion Dominion

Plastic Bertrand was more plastic that you knew. (Strangely, he's also morphed into Ellen DeGeneres.)

Last year I bought a cheap blood pressure machine from the pharmacy. I think I was a bit worried about the number of headaches my wife was ...

Can you ask a pig if his glass is half full? Quite a charming bit of research here: In an experiment reminiscent of Pavlov's dogs, the N...

Annabel Crabb on those Labor leaks looks at the suspects in her own amusing way. I agree with her that the most plausible source seems Ru...

Real Climate has been running hot lately with: a. a lengthy guest post by "Tamino" reviewing a book on the hockey stick controv...

Yet another study looking at what happened in a previous big event of volcano driven ocean acidification 120,000,000 years ago. Yes, shel...

Green wet stuff continues to make the news. A new study in Nature indicates a large decline in the amount of phytoplankton in the oceans o...

The New York Times reports on a lot of work being done to genetically alter algae to make it better as a potential large scale source of bi...

Sea surface temperatures in the Red Sea are routinely very high, I believe, but there are corals there that cope nonetheless.  There’s a con...

As reported in the Geelong Advertiser : A "witch" told a traffic cop she was above the law because she was "from another...

There’s a pretty good essay in the NYT about how whether it is right to give up on free will as a result of the experiments which show that...

Phys.org has a short report up about a new proposed method for removing CO2 from the air, but its very short on details and says nothing ab...

Tim Colebatch provides does a good summary of why a large number of voters feel very disappointed by all parties this election. I also se...

According to this report , a prominent anti-vaccination group in New South Wales is not only spreading their mis-information via the Web; th...

There’s  a pretty big story out about how Australian based researchers have made some fundamental advances in understanding Alzheimer disea...

*  Tried to make a cream and tomato pasta sauce, but using mostly low fat evaporated milk instead of cream.   (Hey, my wife fed me pork bell...

The BBC has put up video of that remarkable incident of the whale that decided to have an on board tour of a passing yacht. As I can'...

Another week, another arXiv paper that seems important, if only I could follow it properly. This one is about how to understand the quantum ...

Yet another great article by Annabel Crabb on the curious current state of the election campaign.

Time magazine has a quite lengthy, quite balanced article summarizing recent research on the very complicated issue of the relationship bet...