Opinion Dominion

Evangelii Gaudium: Pope Francis vs libertarian economics. One of the creepiest combinations on the right of US politics is the mix of Cath...

I feel a need to make this observation:   after using it for (what?) a couple of months now, and giving yself time to try to used to it, the...

Exhuming Lee Harvey Oswald: JFK’s killer’s corpse was raised based on a conspiracy theory. OK, maybe one last anti-conspiracy post about t...

Russian resurrection | TLS Quite an interesting book review here on the work of Nikolai Fyodorov in Russia, who seems to be credited with ...

I am surprised that anyone can get excited about the fact that a Governor General with a short time remaining in the job said she was pro Re...

Man survives after car struck by lightning in Newcastle: video If ever there was proof needed that the inside of a car is a pretty safe pl...

Last week, as I observed elsewhere on the internet, I immediately thought that Tony Abbott's response to the Indonesian phone tapping st...

It's good to see the 50th anniversary of CS Lewis' death is also being widely remembered, and his legacy analysed. There's an ...

For Philippa.   The rest of you can ignore it.

That Time Jules Verne Caused a UFO Scare When I was a child, my local Council library carried quite a few Jules Verne novels, and I used t...

Mystery humans spiced up ancients’ sex lives  I don't really try to keep up with human evolution news:  it seems to change too often o...

John F. Kennedy conspiracy theories debunked: Why the magic bullet and grassy knoll don’t make sense. I was impressed by the documentary o...

The FBI files on being and nothingness The FBI under J Edgar Hoover must have been a fun place to work: The FBI had been keeping an eye ...

Hola – free program lets you enjoy any website from any country [Freeware] | The Red Ferret Journal ...but I haven't tried it yet. U...

Chilly lab mice skew cancer studies  International guidelines call for laboratory mice to be kept at room temperature. Yet the rodents fi...

Changing winds dampen Antarctic sea-level rise  Working out the future of global sea level rise under AGW is very complicated, as this art...

Ayn Rand’s vision of idiocy: Understanding the real makers and takers - Salon.com I love a good bit of anti-Randianism, and this article i...

Lowering the age of consent: U.K. public health advocate John Ashton wants to relax the age of consent to 15. From Slate, an interesting a...

Paul Krugman has an interesting column in which he seems somewhat persuaded by an argument that the world may have moved to a sort of perma...

Here's an enjoyable article by Joan Acocella reviewing a couple of recent biographies of St Francis of Assisi, which gives a decent sho...