Opinion Dominion

Andrew Bolt show back and bigger on Ten, with media scrutiny segment | Media | theguardian.com I didn't know this about The Bolt Repor...

America risks becoming a Downton Abbey economy | Lawrence H. Summers Larry Summers talking about inequality in the US sounds very sensible...

I blame my daughter.  She started watching My Kitchen Rules and has got me hooked.  Reality-ish TV competitions are generally to be held in ...

Sinclair Davidson, and his crew of dimwits, congratulate * rude and offensive namecalling from a student, because he denies AGW and climate ...

There's an article on The Conversation by a health researcher John de Witt entitled To curb rising HIV rates, we must target our human f...

With anti-gay law, Uganda says it is defending 'morals' | The Japan Times Veteran President Yoweri Museveni has announced he wou...

Lincoln and Darwin, born hours apart, February 12, 1809 | Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

What is dark energy? Vacuum energy, braneworlds, string theory, gravity, quantum physics. A pretty good, pretty comprehensible, article on...

Columnists like talking about aluminium as "congealed electricity":  all the better for some of them to huff and puff about how pr...

Can scientists know that they do not know? Imagine you knew everything about the current universe – the state of every single particle – ...

Australia spied on Indonesia talks with US law firm in 2013 | World news | theguardian.com Look, I've always assumed that mobile telep...

How Breast Milk Engineers a Baby’s Gut (and Gut Microbes)  It seems quite a complicated story that is being sorted out - how mother's...

Climate sceptic to head Abbott review into renewable energy target The Abbott government has launched a formal review of Australia's 2...

The Lowy Institute blog notes a Youtube video that is part of a UNICEF campaign to encourage the good people of India not to do their busin...

I see that Judith Sloan, whose living now seems to comprise of: a.  putting a veneer of polite reason on her right wing economic and polit...

As Jason's twitter account might be the only one in the world that pretty regularly mentions this blog, it's time for another bit ...

James Delingpole, the science commentator who freely admits knowing nothing about science, wrote about the recreational use of drugs, partic...

Looking back at parapsychology over my lifetime, in the late 60's and the whole of the 70's there was  a pretty popular idea that sc...

 Ghosts of the Tsunami  The link is to a lengthy essay in the London Review of Books about the Japanese experience of ghosts and possession...

Last weekend, I caught a bit of Rage on Saturday morning, and once again was surprised that so much effort goes into making good quality vid...