Opinion Dominion

I don't really know that anyone really needs a mobile phone or tablet that has the display curving over the edge, but it is a very cool...

The movie version of Enders Game has caused so much discussion, partly because of the author's strident and conservative views on homose...

Navy new destroyer: USS Zumwalt is bigger, badder than any other destroyer ( video) - CSMonitor.com This sounds odd: The USS Zumwalt is ...

First results from LUX dark matter detector rule out some candidates It sounds like a big, expensive experiment that may well turn up noth...

Adam Gopnik: The Assassination of J.F.K., Fifty Years Later : The New Yorker Quite a good essay by Gopnick.   I liked the last couple of p...

Why So Many Icelanders Still Believe in Invisible Elves - Ryan Jacobs - The Atlantic A few paragraphs of particular interest: Though J...

Saudi 'blasphemy' prisoner Hamza Kashgari tweets for first time after release | GulfNews.com Don't think I had heard this stor...

I didn't note this from a few days ago : Mr Abbott also said the carbon tax was a socialist policy in disguise. "Let's be u...

Is Australia ready for 2.3 million more people? Michael Pascoe makes a convincing case that, with significant population growth, it is no...

Restoring F. P. Ramsey | TLS Can't say I had heard of FP Ramsey before, but this review in TLS says he was a rather important contempo...

Hemingway hits the bottle | TLS A few posts back, I mentioned the badly behaving famous writers of the first half of the 20th century. W...

A Very Expensive Tea Party  The shutdown and debt ceiling brinkmanship did real damage to the economy. The immediate and direct costs ar...

As prepared by my daughter, and posted while watching the X Factor final:

It must be a weekend for reviews. Paul Krugman has an excellent one of a new book by somewhat controversial climate change economist Nordh...

Literary Review - David Cesarani on the disturbing role of women in the Nazi era I was in the only newsagent I know that carries Literary ...

Mawson doubts: hero or heel? My handful of long time readers will recall my post about Heather Rossiter's enjoyable book about a (one ...

Are Japanese people really having less sex than anyone else? I was nearly going to link to the Slate article about young Japanese giving u...

Well, I would not have expected this: The bacteria in the human mouth – particularly those nestled under the gums – are as powerful as a ...

Trick or Treat All about performing masked monkeys in Indonesia.  (Have a look at photo 3 in the slide show in particular.)