Opinion Dominion

Cycles of Time � Not Even Wrong Last year, I mentioned Roger Penrose's new book about how the end of the universe might become the star...

I find it hard to believe, but Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides has already taken $623,000,000 world wide, in 10 days of release....

IBNLive : Bahar Dutt's Blog : On the road to the Arctic Further to my recent interest in Tromsø, Norway (donations to fund my expeditio...

Gillard needs to sell a strong climate plan Kenneth Davidson sounds pretty reasonable in this column. There is one major weakness in what h...

Andrew Bolt on his TV show today noted a map of Sydney Harbour showing minor changes to the coast line with a 1 metre sea level rise. Does ...

Judith Curry 2007: We should not ignore the risks of global warming � My view on climate change Bart Verheggen notes the amazing turnaround ...

Spiderman 3 was a better film than Spiderman 2, in my opinion. Please resume your normal activities....

Male lactation: Can a 33-year-old guy learn to breast-feed? - By Michael Thomsen Just a weird story of a man who really needs a wife, and a ...

Readers are no doubt aware that the question of whether or not the unusually large number of tornadoes in the US at the moment can be (partl...

Anthony Watts' " long awaited surfacestations paper " had as one of its co-authors John Nielsen-Gammon. I hadn't heard of...

gulfnews : Rosie to take over Oprah's show They must be getting desperate for talk show host talent in the United States.

Mobile phone coverage in Finland and Norway is interfering with a type of radar used to research the Northern Lights: The scientific organi...

I like this summary by Ross Gittens of how Tony Abbott is running the carbon tax argument: I don't like using the L-word, but Tony Abbot...

Andrew Bolt keeps tediously repeating Robyn Williams' carelessly worded comment re 100 m of sea level rise, prompting me to comment at h...

ABC The Drum - High risks: cannabis and psychosis I always like to read comments by psychiatrists condemning the use of marijuana due to its...

Multiverse = Many Worlds, Say Physicists - Technology Review An interesting post on the suggestion by Susskind & Bousso that "the m...

Michael Bronski's A Queer History of the United States: What do 500 years reveal about gays in America? - By Johann Hari - Slate Magazin...

Small bangs and white holes The article suggests that maybe some gamma ray bursts are from white holes. Well, if anything is up for grabs, h...

Further to my new found interest in Tromsø, Norway, here is a nice webcam feed from the university there. Even now, midnight has quite a l...

Let consumers carry the can on carbon My favourite economics writer has a good explanation of the Carmody suggestion to tax consumption of c...