Opinion Dominion

Julia Gillard rallies as Tony Abbott's rating falls, while Kevin Rudd blasts Labor conference | News.com.au Is it just me, or does News ...

On 29 November, the right wing(nutty) site World Net Daily ran a special deal on Herman Cain's book, modestly called "This is Herm...

Kurt Vonnegut's dark, sad, cruel side is laid bare | Books | The Observer I've never read Vonnegut, although I suspect he might be O...

Finland: in search of the northern lights | Travel | The Observer A nice bit of travelogue in The Observer about how difficult it can be to ...

New study suggests how toads might predict earthquakes We've all heard of strange animal behaviour shortly before an earthquake, but it ...

Jack and Jill - Movie Reviews - Rotten Tomatoes Adam Sandler's latest movie, which has just opened in Australia, has earned a spectacu...

Rustlings from Republican Environmentalists | Planet3.0 Barry Bickmore, who holds the very lonely position of being a Republican scientist w...

Abrupt permafrost thaw increases climate threat Permafrost thaw will release approximately the same amount of carbon as deforestation, say ...

Researches find poop-throwing by chimps is a sign of intelligence

Banishing consciousness: the mystery of anaesthesia - health - 29 November 2011 - New Scientist I'm not sure how long New Scientists kee...

RealClimate: Ice age constraints on climate sensitivity Real Climate has a long and fairly technical look at the Schmittner paper, and als...

Babies embrace punishment earlier than previously thought "We find that, by eight months, babies have developed nuanced views of recip...

Four reasons why the quantum vacuum may explain dark matter I'm pretty sure I had a post when the idea covered in this article first cam...

Battery electrode's 40,000 charge cycles look promising for grid storage Apparently, lithium ion batteries are only good for 1,000 recha...

Apart from the "Climategate 2" emails, about which it is really only climate change denying skeptics who are managing much excitem...

My life as a Waugh | Life and style | The Guardian The Waugh family seems to be a never ending source of anecdote about odd literary charact...

is not having a good end of year celebration. See Dodopathy for details.

A report at the BBC notes that accidental 'slow' overdoses of paracetamol are not so uncommon.

"The Walking Dead" characters mistakenly think the morning after pill causes abortion. Do the writers? I wasn't aware that the...

Gosh:  if only government or Councils would pay for such performances to take place on random trains each day, patronage could increase q...