Opinion Dominion

Pauline Kael Reviews: The Ones She Got Wrong I miss Pauline Kael reviews, and it's always interesting reading about her large and intere...

But Qantas dispute dealt with at Dodopathy .

Japan Gets Electricity Wake-Up Call - NYTimes.com : The Japanese did well with reducing electricity demand during summer, but they aren...

The ridiculously frightening world of Japanese spooks | The Japan Times Online Well, what a fun article this is about old supernatural tales...

Abbott Pledges Oath In Blood To Repeal Carbon Tax George Williams explains that it may well be three years after the introduction of Labor...

India is the most likely place for the seventh billionth child to be born | Global development | The Guardian I was just getting used to 6...

I'm surprised to read an opinion piece in the paper this morning co- authored by Julia Gillard and - wait for it - Bill Gates! It...

Mind Hacks has an extract of an article looking at the psychology of vegetarianism, and it's a tad amusing: How vegetarians are seen ...

Some links of some interest: *  small, modular, nuclear power continues to be developed, but not without some financial issues. *  Russ...

Big news in the world of climate science - physicist Richard Muller's much ballyhooed independent re-assessment of the temperature recor...

It must be time for another potato post.  [Interested readers can use the search function on the right to find my previous forays into the f...

Arthur Sinodinas, who impresses me generally and I welcome as new Parliamentary blood for the Coalition, writes in the Australian today: ...

IVF WARNING: Expert tells single women to settle for Mr Not-Quite-Right I didn't realise clinics were "targetting" this serv...

On Andy Warhol | Bryan Appleyard Sadly, Bryan Appleyard has stopped regular blogging again. (He disappeared for quite a while, popped b...

Spaceport America opens – but space tourists will have to wait | Science | The Guardian This story led me to do this quickly this morning...

The Adventures of Tintin - Rotten Tomatoes Initial reviews for Spielberg's Tintin movie seem pretty good. But it doesn't start he...

There continues to be useful and interesting discussion around the climate science blog-o-sphere about ocean warming and climate change. I...

Missing in all the political commentary or reports about Tony Abbott's "pledged in blood" spoiler role for the future of the ...

Steve Jobs, neuroendocrine tumors, and alternative medicine : Respectful Insolence Here's a really, really long blog post talking about ...

BBC News - Where child sacrifice is a business Wow. Quite a horrifying story of the apparent revival in child sacrifice in Uganda by witch ...