Opinion Dominion

I’ve tried various pancake recipes for Sunday breakfast over the last year or two.  Sure, I was able to do basic, simple pancakes (anyone ca...

Look, I found this via the religion/culture site First Things , which found it via some reader who suggested it. It's not like I have ...

Short Sharp Science: To boldly go where no Lego man has gone before The shuttle programme may be over, but NASA has not stopped taking pass...

Carbon Tax The above piece by Labor's Mark Dreyfus does a pretty good job of finding quotes from John Howard that indicate he was prepar...

I think most people (well, people with rodent interests) have heard that rats can't vomit, but I didn't know this: ...rats do still ...

TV's Superheroes of Suburbia shows secret lives of citizens who patrol streets | UK news | The Guardian By day he is a mild-mannered fin...

BBC News - 'Multiverse' theory suggested by microwave background

'Ugly' Tasmanian town upset over Lonely Planet rating Apparently Burnie is cited as a very ugly Tasmanian town by Lonely Planet. I&#...

Downward Causation | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine Sean Carroll at Cosmic Varience delves into science and philosopher again with an i...

A Common Parasite May be Linked to Brain Cancers According to a latest geographic analysis led by the U.S. Geological Survey and French in...

Anorexic at five in Britain Nearly 100 children aged between five and seven in Britain have been treated for anorexia or bulimia in...

James Hansen may promote the worst predictions of global warming, but when it comes to finding solutions, he appears very much a realist abo...

Reading a certain right wing blog has taught me the following relationships:

BBC News - India 'Slutwalk' sex harassment protest held in Delhi Most of the marchers in Delhi were soberly dressed in jeans and T-s...

Did Amy Winehouse die from going cold turkey? - By Jeremy Singer-Vine - Slate Magazine Slate's explainer column says you really can risk...

July heat in Washington was unprecedented - The Washington Post Relentless and punishing, July’s heat was unrivaled in 140 years of Washing...

Spencer & Braswell’s new paper | Climate Etc. When even Judith Curry finds a lot of problems with Roy Spencer's latest attempt to pr...

Advanced Reactor Gets Closer to Reality� - Technology Review : "Terrapower, a startup funded in part by Nathan Myhrvold and Bill Gates,...

GM crops and foods: promises, profits and politics - On Line Opinion - 1/8/2011 I don't follow the GM food issue closely, and I don'...