Opinion Dominion

With apologies to Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. Is it on DVD yet?

Things to do for a week or two... But I'll come back to moan if Kevin Rudd become PM again.

Pass the Ketchup, Test-Tube Burger On the Menu Soon? | Climate Central Research on growing meat in the lab is in the news again, with a &quo...

There was a really interesting report on Lateline tonight about the rapid expansion of the use of unmanned drones by the US. Lots of inter...

I have been writing this on and off for a week. I spend a lot of time criticising the Right now, because it used to be the side displaying c...

Fruit flies use alcohol as a drug to kill parasites Fruit flies infected with a blood-borne parasite consume alcohol to self-medicate, a be...

The first sexual revolution: Pleasure principles | The Economist An interesting review of a book here about how sexual mores changed dramati...

Heartland Documents Leaked, Climate Skepticism Exposed | Climate Central Although the Institute is claiming one document is a fake, this is ...

Contraception objections fail Catholic's moral reasoning – USATODAY.com A very clear and convincing analysis explaining why, from a mora...

David Frum on the GOP’s Lost Sense of Reality -- New York Magazine I read this a while ago, but don't think I have linked to it before. ...

dotCommonweal � Blog Archive � Conscientious objectors? Of all the commentary around about the Obama compromise deal for the contraception m...

Climate change causes harmful algal blooms in North Atlantic: study The study, published in Nature Climate Change found there has been a dr...

I used to visit the Times of India to be amused at the lurid quality of their local crime reporting, but I think I may have found a site fro...

Rick Santorum has been busy throwing red meat to the conservative anti-science base. That he now appears to be a (almost) serious contender,...

Brisbane Flooding 'Inevitable', Hydrologist Tells Flood Inquiry Hedley Thomas and the Australian have been doing their best to convi...

Mills denies giving access to voicemails : Earlier, the Australian owner of Big Pictures photo agency, Darryn Lyons, told the inquiry that p...

Ancient Antarctic lake thought to harbor prehistoric life, Hitler clones - CSMonitor.com You should read the link - it's very amusing. ...

Can the cinnamon challenge kill you? | MNN - Mother Nature Network I've mentioned before that nutmeg can be abused, but I see there is ...