Opinion Dominion

And before anyone disses the numbers, just remember this: Average book sales are shockingly small, and falling fast. Combine the explosion o...

OK, we all know people are easily spooked by nuclear radiation scares, and anti-nuclear activists are no doubt making exaggerated claims and...

Given the haphazard way water has been attempted to be delivered to the cooling pools and reactors at Fukushima, I assume there is a good ...

Mind Hacks has a timely post noting the decline of " post disaster counselling " as a practice.

What does the media think it is doing, promoting this schoolyard bullying incident that has "gone viral"? Everyone knows that the ...

Female hormone could be key to male contraceptive

A couple of physicists have been speculating on whether the LHC could send a particle to the past, with the suggestion being that messages ...

I don't have any doubt that anti-nuclear campaigners take political advantage of nuclear crises while they are underway. However, it se...

It’s a little surprising to read in the New York Times that it’s not only the Japanese reactors which are the source of danger, but the cool...

I just found this at Technology Review (talking initially about the Japanese reactors): The reactors at the nuclear plant, built in the ear...

....to spend too much time abusing other internet identities. But it has to be said - I've been wanting to say it here for so long - Cat...

I normally really like James Empty Blog , run by climate scientist James Annan and his wife Jules, both of whom are living in Japan (near To...

After admitting on Insiders that Tony Abbott uses weasel words on climate change, so that his position of spending billions of dollars to at...

Long term readers of this blog would know that I used to follow with much interest the development of pebble bed reactors - in particular in...

It feels a little early to go back to speaking about anything other than the death and destruction in Japan, but I’ll briefly note some rece...

There is some anxiety in our house at the moment about the inability to contact some relatives in the earthquake affected areas of northern ...

...when it comes to the Zero Carbon Australia plan that says Australia could be powered by renewable energy by 2020: Our research was under...

Time Magazine has a story on the newly retired space shuttle Discovery: it spent a total of a year in space; was the shuttle that delivere...

Real Climate talks about the recent finding that some Antarctic ice freezes from the bottom, but also notes the big picture with ice melt: ...

Physorg notes that there is research going on about how mice sing (ultrasonically): Whether or not mouse song involves learning either thro...