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What an excellent bit of video which was not shown on the ABC's fairly forgettable climate change documentary last week "I can chan...

From Science : Fundamental thermodynamics and climate models suggest that dry regions will become drier and wet regions will become wette...

Prisoner of war: my father's story - The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Barrie Cassidy tells at length the story of his fa...

Lucky me. Here's another, meatier, bit of writing by Mary Beard. She's reviewing a new book about Caligula. While he was undou...

A witty and informative review by Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker about a new book by Elaine Pagels on the Book of Revelation can be found her...

Roy Spencer, man of mystery | Open Mind Roy Spencer, the satellite temperature lukewarmer climate scientist, has been fiddling with figure...

Belief in God strongest in US and Catholic countries, surveys find According to this research looking at changes in belief in God internat...

A remarkable and sad article here on the incredibly high rate of suicide in aboriginal communities in the Kimberley region. Alcohol abus...

So, here's how it goes. A not very interesting article found via Arts and Letters Daily about Walt Whitman leads me to a page full of ...

Scientists suggest evidence of recent lunar volcanism The article notes: A team of researchers at India’s Physical Research Laboratory (...

BBC News - The 'pushy parent' syndrome in ancient Rome Mary Beard, the Professor of Classics whose blog at The Times used to be go...

Three stories from Slate last week: * Yay! A complaint about Word leads to hundreds of comments, amongst which, if you go down far enough...

Movie Studios Are Forcing Hollywood to Abandon 35mm Film. But the Consequences of Going Digital Are Vast, and Troubling  A few months ago ...

Well, the scientific debate about how to properly think about the effects of climate change continues. John Nielsen-Gammon makes a point abo...

Mind Hacks notes an extract from a 2008 Lancet article on mental health issues that arose during polar expeditions. I don't recall hea...

Well, that went against expectations. Over Easter, I took the kids to see the latest Aardman film, Pirates! - Band of Misfits. It got a v...

A week or two ago, the issue of drug law reform was again in the news because some advocacy group no one had heard much of before put out a ...

Shakun et al. Clarify the CO2-Temperature Lag Skeptical Science has a good explanation here of the recent paper in Nature which looked afr...