Opinion Dominion
Founded in 2005: interested in lots of stuff.
Wednesday, February 08, 2017
A detailed take down of Matt Ridley
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Yesterday I noted Matt Ridley's hyperventilating article that appeared in The Times (and was re-printed in The Australian). Today I...
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Tuesday, February 07, 2017
Motivated reasoning and the dishonest and foolish
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The latest kerfuffle that climate change deniers and lukewarmers have come up with regarding climate change is the story of John Bates, rece...
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Monday, February 06, 2017
When blowhards agree - they're probably wrong
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After some quite extraordinary numbers for alleged child abuse within the Catholic Church were discussed today at the Royal Commission, I w...
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Scepticism on Republican tax and spend
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On Flipboard, I see a burst of scepticism about the deficit increasing effect of Republican "less tax, but same or more spending" ...
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As spotted on Twitter
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The conservative admiration for Putin is getting to a silly, nauseating, level, isn't it? As for the news today that everyone ex...
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Sunday, February 05, 2017
Yet more quantum for you...
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A couple more papers spotted on arXiv: Can the Many-Worlds-Interpretation be probed in Psychology? Shades of Aldous Huxley in this pa...
No restraint mothers
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I really find it hard to believe that pregnant women would assume that any psychoactive drug - in this case, cannabis - is harmless to thei...
Across the universe
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It's very hard getting one's head around the full implications of quantum entanglement, or even understanding Bell's results pro...
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Saturday, February 04, 2017
Adventures in cluelessness
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A bleat today from Sinclair Davidson at Catallaxy: It does seem to me that the shared values that have maintained our society and civilis...
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No wonder Donald hates Arnold
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Friday, February 03, 2017
More "can you imagine the Right wing/wingnut commentary on this if it had happened under Obama"?
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As noted at Axios: Reuters has a new report on the raid in Yemen this weekend that resulted in the death of Navy SEAL William "Rya...
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Roubini on Trump
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Seems to me that Roubini's thoughts on the longer term economic effects of Trumpism are reasonable. I liked this part, in particular: ...
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Thursday, February 02, 2017
A great description of Trump
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From Slate: To say Donald Trump is a binary thinker is to give the president of the United States too much credit for the complexity of...
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An unexpected danger from a delicious food
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Lychees can be dangerous. Quite a surprise: For more than two decades, apparently healthy children in the Indian region of Bihar suffe...
If there was any doubt: a complete jerk
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There's a remarkable account of Trump's call with Malcolm Turnbull in the Washington Post - and I am a bit puzzled as to why anyone...
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Thiel goes country shopping
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Weirdo billionaire Peter Thiel loves New Zealand, I see , saying some years ago that it's the country that most aligns with his view of...
I have to say...
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....listening to both Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison over the last 24 hours, am I the only person who is really sick of them spending s...
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By improbable light sail to the stars
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A feature at Nature News talks about a rather improbable sounding proposal to sent a small light sail to Proxima Centauri. Even if it work...
Lucky for me, I guess...
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Study provides new evidence that exercise is not key to weight control
Wednesday, February 01, 2017
A Brexit consequence
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Interesting article at a French news website , noting how many expat English men and women living in Europe, and previously able to enjoy re...
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