Opinion Dominion

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Thursday, January 19, 2017

You know it's true...

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Yeah, I need lessons...   Update:  Here's a second attempt:  
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Wig heists in history

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An amusing read here about a theft problem of C18th England - those stupid wigs of the era were the target of thieves.
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Worse than Nixon

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Former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean says the coming Trump presidency has literally been giving him nightmares: He would wake in th...

Logic in history

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I've never been that interested in logic as a topic per se , and this article on the rise and fall of logic in history helps explain wh...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Opposite conclusions about renewables

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There was a really good explanation on Radio National's breakfast show this morning about how the complicated effect of renewable energ...

For economics graphs lovers

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I think I spotted this on Twitter - Piketty and others have launched a the World Wealth & Income Database which lets you look at, and fi...

About cava

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I've taken to trying the cheap-ish Spanish cava available at our run-of-the-mill liquor outlets, and I have to say, it compares very fa...

A tricky issue

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Well, this is a tricky issue to deal with. Is watching porn in public properly viewed as harassment?    I am sympathetic to the feminist...

CGI agreement

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Further to my post about Rogue One - I see that Guardian readers by and large agree with me that the digital resurrection of Peter Cushing...

Normalising STDs

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Slate has an article about rising rates of sexually transmitted diseases in the US, particularly amongst gay and bisexual men, and looks at ...

How climate deniers are fooled

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Good post at Real Climate about how climate change deniers are willingly fooled by charlatans.  Unfortunately, it seems that once you rea...
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Monday, January 16, 2017

Ancient waters

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This factoid turned up somewhere I was browsing recently, although I see it first got publicity back in 2014.  Not sure, but I think I misse...

Another movie review you don't need

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Watched 2013's Now You See Me on free to air TV last Friday.   Some observations: *  talk about your "high concept" movie w...

Prepare ye the way of the ....

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That's interesting.  (The astute reader might consider this redundant - I pretty rarely post items that are not of interest to me.)  I...

The Rogue and the detective

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I finally caught up with Rogue One yesterday. I think it's very competent, and very watchable, perhaps without being particularly mem...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

If you ask me...

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...there is really surprisingly little media commentary given to the fact that Trump blond dupe Kellyanne Conway seems to constantly be tryi...

Spielberg considered (again)

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There's a new book out on Steven Spielberg that's been getting favourable reviews, partly because it's by a Jewish feminist, so ...
Friday, January 13, 2017

Updates on Trump in Russia you may want to read

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Three things: * Did you wonder how Pravda reported on Trump's adventures in Russia?  As it happens, they did it running a dismissive, ...

A Great Moment in Science

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As this interesting post from Discover explains , it was not until 1 January 1925 that it was really "official" that Hubble had c...

To my sometime twitter troll

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*  I didn't even know what Pseud's Corner was: had to Google it. *  I generally eschew comment on MMA:  I assume I would be appall...
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