Opinion Dominion

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Tuesday, May 16, 2017

The accelerating expansion explained?

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Seems to me that a lot of Chinese are doing interesting physics now.   This sounds interesting: A group of physicists believe they may ha...
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Would not be surprising

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Given his boastful character and inept regard for details, it would not be very surprising at all if Trump did disclose details he shouldn...
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XP rules the waves?

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Would be hard to believe, if true : Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has refused to deny that Britain’s nuclear submarines use the outda...
Monday, May 15, 2017

Japanese thoughtfulness

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Nice story at the BBC saying that the Japanese started "mindfulness", as part of Zen Bhuddism.  The opening paragraphs:  As the...

Backing up

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Am I the only person who finds computer data backup a confusing issue?   I mean, I never quite seem to understand what exactly the software ...
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Sunday, May 14, 2017

Straight to the point

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It's hard to imagine a more damning take on Trump's personality than t his article by David Roberts at Vox.  The key paragraph: ...
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Cary and LSD

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It's not news that Cary Grant tried using LSD therapeutically to overcome some ongoing psychological issues that pursued him throughout ...
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Movie upgraded

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I watched Inception with my son last night, the first time I have viewed it since seeing it at the cinema in 2010. I enjoyed rewatching it m...
Saturday, May 13, 2017

Maybe I am a Russian pawn

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Hey this is a bit of a surprise.  Based on a computer tech's recommendation, I use Kaspersky anti virus on my computers, but NPR reports...
Friday, May 12, 2017

The inflation fight (cosmology, not economics)

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I've always been a bit leery of post Big Bang inflation as an explanation - because the mechanism of how it happened had just been left ...

Governors creeped out

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The Govenor's Mansion in New York apparently creeps out governors who stay there .  (They worry it is haunted.)

Worth noting

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It would seem that the ignorance highlighting interview that Trump gave with The Economist has been swamped for media attention somewhat by ...
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Just to show I'm not a complete "lefty"...

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...I will link with approval (it rarely happens these days) to a post at Tim Blair's , about a truly ridiculous case of "cultural a...
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Is there possibly any more humilitating job than being "White House Spokesperson for PresidentTrump"?

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Vox headline: Trump himself just confirmed his White House’s story about Comey’s firing was a lie;  It took less than 48 hours. Update:...
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Thursday, May 11, 2017

Too stupid to understand how it would look

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From the Washington Post, there's a recurring theme of "anger" in this story.   (These are various extracts from the report): ...
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Am I missing something here?

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I'm no medical researcher, but I've previously questioned how these studies of how long HIV positive patients can expect to live if ...

Socks in space

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Here's a thought:  when you wish upon a shooting star, it might turn out to be a load of astronauts' dirty socks and jocks* burning ...

Poor Mexico

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I had the impression that the drug wars and general rate of murder and mayhem had been improving recently in Mexico.  But not according to o...

What is truth?

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Certainly, as Matthew Yglesias convincingly shows , it's not what Trump and Republican speak.   Here's the opening section: Unkno...
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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Sacked for all the wrong reasons? (Maybe I'm wrong)

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Bigger news than the Labor rebirth of Malcolm Turnbull is the Trump sacking of Comey. The funny thing is, I see that the FBI has had to is...
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