Opinion Dominion

Yay. Sketchbook Pro, my iPad sketching and art app of choice, has finally been changed to make it easier to keep favorite brushes and colo...

One in three Africans is now middle class, report finds | Global development | The Guardian Sounds to me like the African Development Bank m...

I mentioned in my photo post of Tasmania yesterday the Salmon Ponds just outside of Hobart, and how much I enjoy visiting them.   (I had pr...

I was Googling the news for horse accidents (as one does - they've been causing much mayhem lately) and noticed that at the end of the ...

BBC News - Giant ants spread in warm climes A giant ant growing over 5cm (2in) long crossed the Arctic during hot periods in the Earth'...

The family was off to Tasmania a couple of weeks ago, and as is traditional around here, it’s time to put up some photos: Penguins at Lo...

Pizza cake ... how to turn a pile of earth into a wood-fired cob pizza oven in a matter of hours

Some Black Holes May Pre-Date The Big Bang, Say Cosmologists - Technology Review Some wild physics time. Considering that there was recentl...

It seems there is no serious doubt amongst Chinese scientists that global warming is happening, Yet surely, if you were to believe skepti...

Persisting cold extremes under 21st-century warming scenarios A paper here notes that models still suggest that cold extremes will still hap...

Only In It For The Gold: On Waiting for Catastrophe Michael Tobis is in less dramatic mood in this post, in which he makes reasoned comments...

China shows a world lead in clean nuclear energy�(Science Alert) Earlier this year the Chinese Academy of Science announced plans to financ...

Strange cosmic ray hotspots stalk southern skies - space - 03 May 2011 - New Scientist Cosmic rays crashing into the Earth over the South P...

Ecstasy associated with chronic change in brain function Interesting comment in this report: "There's tension in the fields of psyc...

I had noticed recently (from a climate science website) that a paper had come out which was co-authored by climate skeptic Pat Michaels, ar...

Osama Bin Laden's legacy: It will depend in part on what Obama does next. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine An interesting take...

There were two great bits of television from Britain over the weekend: the royal wedding, and the new episode of Dr Who. First, the wedding...

Rudd was beheaded, and it was all for nothing, Tanner laments It's interesting that Lindsay Tanner says that Labor dropped Kevin Rudd be...

The most overly self-exposed professional blogger in the world, Sam de Brito, wrote last week : A month or so ago, I found I was suffering f...

ABC The Drum - Political engagement is a universal constant Chris Uhlmann, who I think has not turned out to be quite the climate skeptic in...