Opinion Dominion
Founded in 2005: interested in lots of stuff.
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Clean coal, Finkel, etc
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To be honest, I've been busy and haven't heard enough about the Finkel review proposal regarding a clean energy target to know wheth...
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Wednesday, June 14, 2017
High rise fire
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This tragic London apartment tower fire raises the question - what is it that burns so well in a tower block like that? I reckon that the ...
Magnetic eels
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Hey, Norway gets a mention, too: Now, researchers at the University of Miami and the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research have shown th...
TV recommendations
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* the "invisible city" series showing on SBS on Sunday nights - where they go underneath various Italian ancient cities and map t...
How often do I get to put "lesbians" and "Nazis" in the one post title?
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Researcher sheds light on life of lesbians in Nazi Germany Long story short: the Nazi's didn't get as worked up about lesbians as...
Magnetic brain rewiring for depression
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They should make this available to the threadsters of Catallaxy: The Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA is one o...
To Norway, again
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My interest in Norway is piqued again by an article in the NYT (with some photos too) about the Americans building a new radar on an isolat...
Send in the cows
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How do you start a dairy industry overnight in a wealthy desert nation with its transport links blockaded? You buy 4,000 cows from Austra...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Putin on the risk (to the tune of...never mind)
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There's a pretty decent article on why Putin is probably feeling pretty cheery about how things are going for Russian influence at the I...
Unwanted movie review
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In my never ending search to find more than one A grade movie on the Stan streaming service, I watched the 2014 Jake Gyllenhaal vehicle Nig...
Addictions of the religiously conservative
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For a socially conservative religion, it sure sometimes seems that Muslims have quite the problem with drug addiction. Although, to be a ...
Batman, too considered
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I have to say, prompted by all the commentary appearing with the passing of Adam West (who seemingly was a nice enough, self-effacing fellow...
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A mentally unhealthy blog
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The threads of Catallaxy, which have become a self selecting support group for the perpetually angry conservative, culture warrior Right, ha...
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All completely normal..not
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Much well deserved mockery of Trump's "you must pledge your allegiance to me and proclaim how brilliantly I am performing" pub...
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Monday, June 12, 2017
Bring back the old Conversation
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Can I say, I don't care for the way The Conversation is going under its new leadership, with headline articles like this : Not merely...
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Sunday, June 11, 2017
Swimming with Lincoln
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Also at NPR, a story about how the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC is to be drained and cleaned to try to...
Still pretty dark in parts of Africa
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A surprising story at NPR : Authorities in Mozambique say bald men are being killed, allegedly because of the belief that their heads cont...
Ready for her close up
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There's been too many words here lately, and not enough cute. Here's some: And here's a prisma filtered shot:
Cockroaches, retrocausality, event horizons, and Titus-Bode is still a thing...
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I've been scrolling through arXiv again, as you do on a rainy day, and suggest the following papers are worth a look: * Can we Falsify...
Saturday, June 10, 2017
A convenient memory
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I just noticed from Twitter someone referring to Trump's own lawyers, back in 1992, saying that they always met him in pairs: This w...
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