Opinion Dominion

Can very small doses of LSD make you a better worker? I decided to try it. - Vox I see from the article, written by a man with a lot of pre...

Here are two stories that show how it's really hard to be confident as to what will happen to agriculture and climate change: 1.   A s...

Obviously, the politically correct name for sex change surgery is now "gender affirming surgery" .  Still, the article at that l...

I've been meaning to comment on the Liberals selecting the IPA's James Paterson for its top Victorian Senate seat.  For a party t...

Global warming already driving increases in rainfall extremes : Nature News & Comment Interesting study reported here. I see that The ...

Well, that's funny.  All of The Australian's stories on the weekend about Niki Savva's book were able to be read via the old ...

Why I’d Vote For Donald Trump While it's not exactly an endorsement, it's still surprising to read Clive Hamilton saying that he...

A couple of other bits of intrigue about this: *  why did The Australian, normally so pro-Coalition, run with this?  Well, I think the ans...

*  From a couple of weeks back:  the last episode of the X Files reboot.  Terrible, just terrible.  The only possible explanation seems to b...

What's with all this kerfuffle about the matter of whether even Liberals thought Abbott and Credlin were having an affair?   The media ...

There seems to have been a gap in my knowledge about European airship history. Everyone knows about the Hindenburg crash, but I did not re...

How far should medicine go to cure taboo loves and desires A somewhat interesting discussion here of a complicated topic. Update :  actu...

I've mentioned him at least once before, but he deserves another burst of praise.  Tony Robinson, perhaps still best known as Baldrick. ...

The U.S. Military Now Offers Egg Freezing for Female Soldiers - The Atlantic From the link: While egg freezing is not yet commonplace, a...

El Nino’s Long-Awaited Grand Performance Is On Its Way to California
 | Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog Could be very wet in California i...

Primary voters don't really look like America | Guide to the presidential primaries For starters, it's a small group. Just 20 pe...

Noted recently on arXiv, a paper with the attractive title:   Black Holes and the Multiverse.   The abstract: Vacuum bubbles may nucleate ...

Norway's Radioactive Reindeer - The Atlantic Didn't realise that radioactivity from Chernobyl was still causing problems in norther...

Always full of mad, and frequently offensive, right wing vitriol*, I see that the participants* of Catallaxy** are being driven especially ...