Opinion Dominion

....that the militarisation of the US police forces has become ridiculously over the top (and note that a significant part of it is due to ...

This is the full extract from Swan's book in last weekend's SMH.

Microbiology: Microbiome science needs a healthy dose of scepticism : Nature News & Comment I forgot to mention that Catalyst last wee...

Black market boom lays bare a social divide in Colorado’s marijuana market | World news | Guardian Weekly Yeah, yeah, it's early days ...

I find it a bit hard to understand the metadata privacy freakout, given that surely everyone should assume that any old bored 21 year old wo...

I see that IPA aligned economists are getting all aroused at the prospect that, having lost out on the fake and hysterical free speech cris...

Abbott and Hockey: Why poor people don't matter

Wittgenstein,Tolstoy and the Folly of Logical Positivism | Issue 103 | Philosophy Now Given all the World War 1 talk going on at the momen...

Stop Making Sense 30th anniversary: David Byrne and Jonathan Demme talk about how the movie got made (VIDEO). Yay.  Slate has a short stor...

Not sure that I am up to resuming my daily blogging routine just yet - I still have a large backlog of work that I started making progress o...

This should be a big week - off to the Brisbane "ekka"; should be able to see Guardians of the Galaxy next weekend; four work days...

The news that a British Antarctic station lost its power this week leads to yet another cool photo or two of futuristic architecture, which ...

Medical payments to go private This sounds like a very dubious proposition to me: In an advertisement in today’s The Australian Financia...

Good, too, to see that so much effort was put into the design of the ad, which featured about 90% empty space, fellas. Still, blowing s...

...it's Drawn Fraser. Update:   this post seems underappreciated.  I'll have to continue work on "Pony Abbott", but ph...

Marijuana decriminalisation: High times in Amsterdam and Boulder | The Economist See, I don't just post negative stories about marijua...

Pollution triples mercury levels in ocean surface waters, study finds | Environment | theguardian.com Particularly discouraging because it...

The story here . [Once again,  witness the enthusiastic mooching from the biggest anti-mooching think tank in the land.]

Link between vitamin D and dementia risk confirmed I see at the end of the article there's a link to a report about low vitamin D and ...