Opinion Dominion

It's hard for people who live in other parts of the world to understand completely the kerfuffle in the US about the Obama administratio...

So, all of the new year polls show Labor and the coalition pretty much where they were at the end of last year, with a two party preferred ...

Where there's a worm there's a whale: First distribution model of marine parasites provides revealing insights Apart from not findin...

The weather bureau seems to have predicted levels of rain in Queensland pretty well for the last two summers. Last year, based on high sea ...

It appears that the question of whether the LHC will create mini black holes is still open, with a recent paper at arXiv about what signals...

In the Developing World, Solar Is Cheaper than Fossil Fuels - Technology Review

Morgellons disease: the CDC study that debunks the skin ailment. Slate notes: ...now the CDC’s report is out, and Morgellons activists are ...

Is there anything we need on the moon? | FP Passport Newt Gingrich seems to be reviled by a considerable number of people who have worked ...

Courting male mice sing like birds What a charming story: Male house mice sing like birds to serenade their mates, a study has found. B...

How Neutrons Might Escape Into Another Universe - Technology Review Can't say I've heard this before, but it seems the suggestion ha...

As this blog has come to serve as a sort of on line diary/journal for things I don't want to lose, like recipes, I'll note a salmon ...

BBC News - Asteroid to make near-miss fly-by An asteroid will pass by the Earth on Friday in something of a cosmic near-miss, making i...

Tim Blair summaries the Australia Day incident with the PM accurately, although with more light heartedness than I might have expected.   A...

BBC News - Fried food 'fine for heart' if cooked with olive oil Eating fried food may not be bad for the heart, as long as you use o...

Three papers that caught my eye: * Injecting sulfate particles into stratosphere won't fully offset climate change According to the s...

It was almost exactly a year ago, after the Queensland floods,  that Andrew Bolt had a post up alleging that a 2009 report by the Queenslan...

I see this has been around since 2010, and has had millions of views, as well as being mentioned at the Gulliver blog on the Economist in 20...

The visible hand | The Economist This will go over well at Catallaxy. The Economist has a quasi sympathetic look at the success of "st...

BBC News - Big Tokyo earthquake likely 'within the next few years' A big earthquake is much more likely to hit the Japanese capital...

'I have a different attitude towards money than those who rather hoard it': inside the lavish life of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom ...