Opinion Dominion

I've been getting a bit mind boggled at the numbers quoted for bacteria that we live with.  For example, from the New York Times recentl...

Update:  hey, it has to be noted that it seems Paul Keating was sitting on one side of Murdoch last night, and Abbott on the other.  (A...

Who's best at predicting the World Cup – Nate Silver, bankers or a cat parasite? | News | theguardian.com The Guardian notes here tha...

Surely I can't be the only person who's finding the outright bitchiness of Judith Sloan towards economists (or economics writers) sh...

I really wasn't going to add to the "Ian Thorpe comes out" brouhaha [now there's a word I don't use often], but then ...

Have I mentioned hamsters' unsavoury habits here before?  I certainly have read about them being amongst the worst rodents for maternal ...

There's a rather excellent article over at Nature about the great confusion that astronomers are now in regarding their theory of how y...

Researchers discover oysters can adapt to climate change - ABC Rural (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) From the article: Sydney rock...

Carbon tax going, but don't expect big savings From Peter Martin's column today - But they are unlikely to save anything like t...

Australia drying caused by greenhouse gases and ozone Things don't look so good for Perth in particular.  In fact, all of the long ter...

Tommy Ramone died: They Might Be Giants' John Flansburgh pays tribute to longest living member of The Ramones. Not that I ever heard m...

Vasectomy raises risk of lethal prostate cancer, study shows | Society | theguardian.com From the report: Harvard scientists analysed th...

How Coffee Fueled the Civil War - NYTimes.com Here's something a bit out of the blue:  a great read about the huge importance of coffe...

Fight climate change by building away from sea: Rupert Murdoch In a big weekend for disclosures that didn't really surprise anyone, th...

A test. Update:   I just needed to post a pic from my tablet, and having done this one some time ago, just decided to use it.  But I hav...

No, Tony Abbott, nothing about the Senate negotiations was 'normal' | World | The Guardian As Lenore Taylor notes: This is, aft...

Operation Sovereign Borders chief unable to answer asylum questions | World | The Guardian The role Angus Campbell is playing in this gove...

Rupert Murdoch: It’s one of my lifetime achievements | 50th Birthday | News | | The Australian Good Lord, hasn't it been embarrassing ...

Kant confusion | TLS This review of another book about Kant's moral philosophy starts out well, pointing out the problems people see w...