Opinion Dominion

Yesterday I noted Matt Ridley's hyperventilating article that appeared in The Times (and was re-printed in The Australian). Today I...

The latest kerfuffle that climate change deniers and lukewarmers have come up with regarding climate change is the story of John Bates, rece...

After some quite extraordinary numbers for alleged child abuse within the Catholic Church were discussed today at the Royal Commission, I w...

On Flipboard, I see a burst of scepticism about the deficit increasing effect of Republican "less tax, but same or more spending" ...

The conservative admiration for Putin is getting to a silly, nauseating, level, isn't it?    As for the news today that everyone ex...

A couple more papers spotted on arXiv: Can the Many-Worlds-Interpretation be probed in Psychology? Shades of Aldous Huxley in this pa...

I really find it hard to believe that pregnant women would assume that any psychoactive drug - in this case, cannabis - is harmless to thei...

It's very hard getting one's head around the full implications of quantum entanglement, or even understanding Bell's results pro...

A bleat today from Sinclair Davidson at Catallaxy: It does seem to me that the shared values that have maintained our society and civilis...

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...

Seems to me that Roubini's thoughts on the longer term economic effects of Trumpism are reasonable.  I liked this part, in particular: ...

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...

Lychees can be dangerous.   Quite a surprise: For more than two decades, apparently healthy children in the Indian region of Bihar suffe...

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...

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...

....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...

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...

Study provides new evidence that exercise is not key to weight control

Interesting article at a French news website , noting how many expat English men and women living in Europe, and previously able to enjoy re...