Opinion Dominion

1.   I used to find Tim Dunlop a tedious bore when he had a gig as a News Ltd blogger, but in small doses he's occasionally OK.   Here, ...

I thought this cautionary piece about Israel and Iran was not bad. It is unclear whether a strike against Iran might be gearing up for b...

A travel writer in the SMH notes how he and he wife caught the worrying dengue fever in Thailand. As he says at the end, the worry is a...

From a review (with the great title "Silent but Deadly") of a new book about ninja: But what did anyone actually know of ninja?...

While you're at Wired (see last post), you should look at its nicely illustrated list of former plans for manned exploration of Mars.   ...

Wired has an article about the limitations on what can be done to make corn drought resistant: Yet even if drought tolerance hasn’t been ...

Grey parrots are pretty clever, as this report of a recent experiment shows: ... the team showed the birds two opaque boxes, one of which...

BBC News - Morocco: Should pre-marital sex be legal? I didn't know things were quite this regulated in Morocco: The editor of Moroc...

QA: Michael Nesmith on His Surprising Return to the Monkees | Music News | Rolling Stone One thing I do know:  having Michael Nesmith look...

BBC News - Many human 'prototypes' coexisted in Africa The story of the evolution of humans seems to always be getting more compli...

Here's a defence of government enforced renewable energy targets even when you have carbon pricing. Sounds relatively convincing to ...

What’s So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress? - NYTimes.com This magazine length article looks at the issue of kids, particularly b...

Adam Gopnik: Mormonism’s History and Meanings : The New Yorker Gopnik has a good article here about the history of Mormonism.  I don't...

Brain might not stand in the way of free will - life - 06 August 2012 - New Scientist An interesting report here on a new experiment revis...

Found via Bad Astronomy , have a look at this pretty picture of Earth from a new weather satellite.  There doesn't seem to be all much g...

Site Meter has been acting crazy for a week or more;  all due to a server move apparently.   Now it doesn't seem to be working at all, a...

Found via Planet 3.0 , this Media Matters post about the pattern that the Wall Street Journal always seems to have followed on environmenta...

The kerfuffle over Watts and Muller last week has led me to find two Australian climate skeptic watching blogs - Watching the Deniers is ba...

I really think Anthony Watts might be starting to crack up.  This post from a couple of days ago, begins with: I’ve been sitting on this ...

The headline in the LA Times is: Oh, come on! It's a salamander...sort of , but the first line gives you an idea of what to expect from...