Opinion Dominion

I don’t often highlight “stupid political correctness for Muslims” stories lately, but this one is a particularly egregious example : A...

The most interesting thing in last week's episode of Last Chance to See was the close up look at the Humboldt squid. I had read somethi...

Quite a surprise to read on the BBC about volunteers who are letting themselves catch malaria in the lab in order to test a new vaccine: ...

I can’t help but post again about the erratic Judith Curry. As I noted before, she’s off to Washington soon to give evidence at a congress...

A study of what happened with increasing CO2 and higher temperatures 40 million years ago indicates that the CO2 came first, not vice versa...

Michael Stutchbury gives an account of why electricity prices have been going up, and why a carbon tax would not add to that process as muc...

I've made the observation before that, even if CO2 do-nothings are correct in saying that increased CO2 will lead to more ocean algae ...

I ended up watching Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom again last night on TV (I can’t help it – has there ever been a better directed and...

The Narnia films have been very, very good. The third one, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, is being released on 9 December, and yet I fear ...

The Economist has a chart that shows how, compared to Europe, Australians were complete wusses when it came to worrying about how long it t...

So, I see that Judith Curry has been invited (by the Republicans - so guess what purpose they hope her to fulfill) to a congressional hear...

Bishops in America are sponsoring a two-day conference on exorcism in response to a growing interest in the rite and because of a shortag...

By virtue of a salesman who signed me up on something else, I recently acquired an iPad. I was sceptical of just how good or useful these ...

One thing her blog is certainly indicating is that Judith Curry likes the sound of her own voice. A couple of weeks ago, elsewhere on the in...

There is a surprising number of people turning up at hospital in the Sunshine Coast hinterland (Nambour Hospital?) with tick bites at the mo...

If this report is anything to go by , European environmental groups have definitely developed cold feet about biofuels being a good idea: E...

A news blog in Nature has some bad news: Thanks to rising carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) levels, some Arctic waters are already experiencing p...

Although it’s easy to imagine how much childhood sexual abuse must play havoc with the victim’s emotional development, I must admit I didn’t...

Those who have an interest in climate change debates would know all about Judith Curry, a climate scientist who, after the "Climategate...

Inspired by a comment at another blog: "Come to think of it, I don’t recall ever seeing a sheep in any depiction of the US, either....