Opinion Dominion

My son is more a wannabe gamer than an actual one - we don't own a gaming console, and are refusing to upgrade the desktop so that he ca...

I didn't realise that the Middle East had a problem with use of a particular amphetamine drug, and that it is likely helping fuel many ...

I think there is a bit of a silly debate going on around the matter of whether IS, or whatever you call it, is "weak" or not. Th...

You Won't Live to See the Final Star Wars Movie | WIRED According to this story, Disney plans on having a new Star Wars universe movie ...

History: Einstein was no lone genius : Nature News & Comment The description here of the maths and ideas that Einstein was working on i...

Early Prostate Cancer Cases Fall Along With Screening - The New York Times I kind of suspect that the doctor in the article who says the an...

Latinos disagree with Republicans on Trump — and a lot of other things - The Washington Post Polling shows 80% of Hispanics have an "u...

Interesting post from the Lowy Institute blog about some push back against academic economics on capital flows: The traditional conventio...

The final days of sub-400 ppm carbon dioxide - Mountain Beltway - AGU Blogosphere From the link: ...this week is probably the last time ...

From Ezra Klein at Vox : ISIS isn't strong. It's weak. That doesn't mean it's not dangerous, or that it can't hurt us...

The Atlantic has a lengthy, somewhat interesting , story about student suicide in the rich, high tech town of Palo Alto. I found this inte...

So, David Leyonhjelm finds the NRA awesome .   The NRA youtube which he was happy to participate in features many gun owners still torn up e...

Fearing Fear Itself - The New York Times A great bit of commentary here on the Paris terrorist attack by Paul Krugman. 

On Sunday evening I called ISIS "violent dimwits", so I was pleased to have find some backing for the "dimwit" bit from ...

Mindless terrorists? The truth about Isis is much worse | Scott Atran | Comment is free | The Guardian There's parts of this column w...

Let's start with the soft Left:   of course some of them make soft headed, inappropriate , or nasty tweets after Islamic terrorism atta...

The "meta" tragedy of Paris is that it is part of a fight with a bunch of violent dimwits who are too stupid to realise their apo...

NIST team proves 'spooky action at a distance' is really real

Machine Being Built to Receive Messages from the Future : Discovery News I don't know what prompted this recent short story on Ronald M...

Why we shouldn’t be fooled by the fall in unemployment figure | The Australian Adam Creighton is certainly looking on the dark side today....