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I should have noted this story from last week: "When we looked at the dwarf galaxies surrounding Andromeda, we expected to find the...

How do you know if you ran through a wall? Testing the nature of dark energy and dark matter Researchers from Canada, California, and Pola...

A few articles all with a "below the belt" theme - sort of: *  the first is a bit of a cheat:  Mary Beard has an interesting rev...

Last week, SBS showed the first episode of a 3 part documentary "Welcome to India" and it made for fascinating, if rather disturbi...

A lot of people are worried about bushfire danger in New South Wales today, with Sydney expecting 43 degrees and high winds.  Of the recen...

"Gangster Squad" is an amazingly bland and boring name for a movie, isn't it?  (I've seen billboards around town for it, a...

Happy New Year, Readers. Christmas was pretty pleasant at the Opinion Dominion household, seeing relatives and friends that we haven't...

NRA press conference: The lesson of Newtown—when gun nuts write gun laws, nuts have guns. - Slate Magazine This is just one of the many sav...

High culture is being corrupted by a culture of fakes | Roger Scruton | Nice to see Roger Scruton turning up somewhere again.

What does it profit a man? Between Tony's faith and Abbott's ambition – Opinion – ABC Religion & Ethics (Australian Broadcasting...

Well, I certainly hope it is annoying gun lovers of Australia that Slate is running an article noting how John Howard's gun buyback act...

Peter Jackson's Violent Betrayal of Tolkien - Noah Berlatsky - The Atlantic I don't intend seeing The Hobbit, but I am happy to no...

On the weekend I took the family on the annual run around suburbs not too far from us to view Christmas lights. There is one house, which ...

On Friday, I was going to do a post noting disappointment that the latest Quentin Tarentino movie had received very strong reviews.   I didn...

The Australian, with Dennis Shanahan in his column this morning, opining that the public is tired of politicians trying to smear each other...

Abraham Lincoln, bare-knuckle brawler? - Salon.com Well, this interview with an author of (yet another) book about Lincoln contains a lot ...

Understanding How Children Develop Empathy - NYTimes.com A somewhat interesting column here on the human sense of empathy.   It seems th...

Dollar dazzler: why they want our money Michael Janda seems to be saying that the high Australian dollar is a problem, but there's nou...

iPad mini, Kindle Fire HD, or Google Nexus 7? What's in your stocking? | Money | The Observer So, I'm not too interested in the ar...