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Could the Higgs mass determine the end of the universe?  According to quantum theory, it’s possible that the lowest energy state of our ...

'Nearby' supermassive black hole rotates at close to the speed of light | Science | guardian.co.uk Phil Plait at Slate gives a bit...

DreamWorks Animation takes $87 million write-down on 'Rise of the Guardians' - latimes.com I promise I'll stop talking about m...

Japan’s prisons: Eastern porridge | The Economist A somewhat interesting look here at how Japanese prisons operate.  (Watch the video too....

Oscars 2013 and Spielberg: The storyteller is part of our cultural DNA - CSMonitor.com A reasonable enough, lengthy article here on Spielb...

Well, at the First Things blog of all places, there's a decent post complaining about the attempts at humour at the Oscars show last nig...

Argo **** yourself: Ben Affleck’s Iran hostage movie is the worst. - Slate Magazine Am I to take it that there is a lot of swearing in thi...

Want to emigrate to Australia? Be warned – it's not 'hot Britain' | Rae Earl | Comment is free | The Guardian You get some pre...

Understanding the recent listeria-linked cheese recall

Weather extremes provoked by trapping of giant waves in atmosphere "An important part of the global air motion in the mid-latitudes o...

Re the Oscar show last night, which I tried to speed up with much use of fast forward on the digital recorder, but still couldn't compre...

In a minor triumph of parental pressure to have a 12 (nearly 13) year old boy see an educational movie that he may well not like, I convince...

We think this is the baby possum which featured with its mother here last year.  He or she now turns up alone: And in other possum ne...

Sorry about that shouty heading, but seriously, just how many repetitions do Australian political journalists and commentators think they ca...

Medieval animal trials: Why they’re not quite as crazy as they sound. - Slate Magazine A sample from this interesting article: Such a...

So, it was arguing with someone on the 'net who seems to have missed the last 300 years of philosophy and science about Thomas Aquinas a...

It's interesting to note that the homicide rate in Australia continues to fall, as it is apparently is internationally.  But the compa...

A sixty year old woman who neighbours allege is a witch is reported to have given birth to a rat at Ekumfi Eku Mpoano in the Central Regio...

Carbon trading: The first hurdle | The Economist EUROPE’S emissions-trading system, the world’s largest carbon cap-and-trade scheme, sur...

This is late , given that Valentines Day was last week, but it sounds so odd it's worth noting anyway: For centuries before Christiani...