Opinion Dominion

The video itself is a few years old, but it just appeared at Boing Boing , and it's genuinely interesting to see how well a vacuum syste...

There's a really good article up at Vanity Fair , by a guy who seems to know what he's talking about, trying to correct the many mis...

Pope Pius XII, Hitler’s pawn? | TLS This reads as a pretty even handed review of 2 new biographies of Eugenio Pacelli, who was Pope Pius X...

I've been forgetting to note how much I enjoy Greg Jericho writing on economics at The Guardian . I particularly liked his post this w...

BBC News - A gay island community created by Italy's Fascists A somewhat interesting story here of an island exile which Mussolini set...

Scent of melanoma: New research may lead to early non-invasive detection and diagnosis It's only tests in the lab so far, but still: ...

World population could be nearly 11 billion by 2100, research shows African fertility is not slowing at the expected rate, and hence: The...

That's interesting.  Rupert Murdoch is getting divorced from his Chinese wife . I've been puzzled by his swings on issues - he was...

Michelle Grattan's summary of the whole issue of Julia Gillard and women is very good. I have a few comments: *  the two Ruddite MP&...

Who really pays for designer vaginas? Increasing numbers of Australian women are asking their doctors for a designer vagina. So many, in ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vaccine conspiracy theory: Scientists and journalists are covering up autism risk. - Slate Magazine Wow.  Robert F K...

The NSA’s phone-call database: A defense of mass surveillance. - Slate Magazine I find it hard getting excited about this issue - I though...

Dear Kevin & Julia, If you really, really want to help Labor, and (for Kevin) preserve the possibility of returning to the leadership ...

Blame it on the dollar, but can we rein it in? My favourite economics commentator emphasises in this column how much the high Australian d...

Further to my recent post regarding physicist Lee Smolin's new book, I see that someone at Backreaction has put up a link to a copy of i...

At about 70 pages, I don't have time to read this essay I found at arXiv on physics, free will and Turing, but I will come back to it.

Essay Book Reviews - Irish Book Reviews - Dublin Review of Books I mentioned late last year that there is a short book out by Paul Johnson...

Nuclear bomb tests reveal brain regeneration in humans - health - 07 June 2013 - New Scientist Nuclear bomb tests carried out during the c...

This seems to be the second series on SBS I've seen in the last couple of years devoted to spices, but I have been enjoying Spice Trip ....

Christopher Pyne's strained relationship with the truth* continues to be operating at crisis level, and I don't think they're ev...