Opinion Dominion

Just testing a few things. You may safely ignore this post if it changes.

I don’t think any commentator predicted the outbreak of good behaviour during Answer Time yesterday.   Annabel Crabb explains: You see...

Here's a skeptical take from the Washington Post on the National Press Club "UFOs have interfered with nuclear weapons" confe...

New Scientist explains that there’s a new idea about the end of the universe around – it just runs out of time: "We could run int...

There doesn't seem much that is blogworthy at the moment, but there's always something: * Discover magazine looks at a "zero ...

From the Japan Times , a photo of the winner of the Emperor's Cup at the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament: That's ridiculous. Clearly, ...

I don't often think to check the City Journal website, so this may have been there for some time already, but I see that it has an essay...

John Horgan, writing in a Scientific American blog , says he’s “thrilled” that psychedelic drugs have been making a slow comeback as a possi...

This was found via Boing boing, and confirms I'm not alone in my puzzlement about the career of M Night Shyamalan*: See more funny vi...

* at the Famers Market (when on earth is Brisbane going to get a permanent version of these? I thought it had been mentioned as a possible...

Strangely enough, it was via the religious blog First Things that I found this video in which a bunch of physicists answer questions. Give...

Some fascinating stuff in this report of studies on the time slowing effects of relativity, which starts with the subheading: As Einst...

Wow.  Vampires (of the bat variety) really can be dangerous : A fifth child has died in Peru in an outbreak of rabies spread by vampire...

I think I've posted before about how, in Japan, suicide pacts have been arranged with strangers via the internet. This appalling use of...

I didn’t realise that frequent flyer programs could be a good little earner : WHEN Qantas announced profit results last month, it revea...

Time for more ocean acidification bad news. This report describes the results of a novel study that looked at what happens when you raise ...

Last week I mentioned a study on the importance of lab mice being handled nicely.  This week it’s a more fundamental question:  why are ther...

The kids have noticed a possum has made a nest of sorts under the deck at home: Cute, very.

There’s a good and sensible opinion piece on the appropriate response to illicit drug use in the Sydney Morning Herald today, arguing that ...

Slate has a review of “The Honor Code”, which looks at how significant social moral changes have happened. The abolition of slavery, Chine...