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‘Deadpool’ Isn’t the Only Solution. But ‘Batman v Superman’ Is the Problem. - The New York Times This take on the matter of superhero movie...

I didn’t I know I was transgender. Reading this article of a former butch lesbian who has decided she is transgender after all does little...

News Corp journalists reject domestic violence views of Daily Telegraph's Tim Blair | Media | The Guardian Actually, I had read Tim Bl...

High speed rail: wrong train, right track? Michael Pascoe argues that if you must have high speed rail in Australia, use maglev.   He migh...

Heh.  I don't think I can imagine a more perfect storm for Guardian readers' response than an opinion piece criticising Germanine G...

Measurement of Universe's expansion rate creates cosmological puzzle : Nature News & Comment

As much as I like taking the Shinkansen when in Japan, count me as skeptical about the prospects of a successful very fast train that runs a...

The Volcano Gambit � RealClimate I'm not sure why Gavin Schmidt is re-visiting this right now, but it's still good to read of the ...

I'm an American living in Sweden. Here's why I came to embrace the higher taxes. - Vox There was a very similar article to this in...

Fathered by the Mailman? It’s Mostly an Urban Legend - The New York Times Yeah, I think I have read this before:  the old estimates of how ...

Got around to seeing Zootopia today. Utterly charming, constantly witty but often hilarious; visually pleasing, inventive in concept, not ...

How the Fight Over Transgender Kids Got a Leading Sex Researcher Fired A truly startling article here from February 2016 about transgender ...

Panama Papers: Act now. Don't wait for another crisis | Thomas Piketty | Opinion | The Guardian

Well, this is kinda weird. Sinclair Davidson writes this morning indicating that he's distinctly ambiguous when it comes to the quest...

Readers would know that I am certainly somewhere on the "cynical" end of the scale on acceptance of the current understanding of w...

In the Australian today, I was able to Google through to two columns about the Arrium steel crisis in Whyalla. First:  Judith Sloan has a ...

Shinkansen makes emergency stop in Hokkaido's subsea tunnel | The Japan Times I see that the underground tunnel that runs between the ...

....there would be an immediate and permanent ban on "relationship" "reality" TV shows.   Australian night time televisi...

I am amused to note how, presumably under the onslaught of Steven Kates's frequent endorsements of (far from libertarian) Donald Trump, ...

Fox Business Pushes 3 Minimum Wage Myths In Just 90 Seconds | Blog | Media Matters for America I was pleasantly surprised to read this: ...