Opinion Dominion

A paper on arXiv: The conception of reality in Quantum Mechanics Disputes on the foundations of Quantum Mechanics often involve the conc...

In Toilet: Ek Prem Katha , Keshav (Akshay Kumar) isn’t expected to build a monument like the Taj Mahal that a Mughal emperor had built fo...

Tony Abbott is going a bit loopy, if you ask me : Tony Abbott has called for Australia urgently to consider a missile defence shield to p...

I see that mockery of Brendan O'Neill is popular:

Here's an article in Nature   that suggests that those science fiction stories where the brain is scanned in 20 minutes and then the min...

After that article in The Atlantic about teenagers being ruined or destroyed or laid waste, or something like that, by obsessive use of smar...

This article notes that it would seem that drinking a diet soda on a more or less empty stomach may not be so bad, but drinking one in comb...

SHANGHAI A Chinese action film that depicts the country's soldiers saving war-ravaged Africans from Western baddies soared to become...

Simon Chapman writes pretty convincingly on the anti-prostate screening side in his article at The Conversation .  

This article in The Conversation notes that women avoid walking through red light streets - streets with a lot of strip clubs or other form...

You know that West Virginian governor who just swapped from being a Democrat to a Republican?  Well, sure seems that in doing so he boosted ...

Physicist Bee has a somewhat complicated (I suppose some would say "nuanced") take on the matter of Google sacking that guy Damor...

While I think a compulsory plebiscite on same sex marriage, held at the next election as a way of minimising cost, is not a bad idea, it is ...

Noticed at Boing Boing, which I rarely visit these days:

I have a hunch that the Impossible Burger, if it's as good as people claim, will make lab grown meat hardly worth pursuing.     But th...

This story : North Korea now has a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can be mounted on a missile, according to an analysis by the U.S. De...

Or, you could become a Buddhist. A lot less sweat and pain involved.  Not to mention very little risk of concussion. * Speaking of Buddhis...

The threads of Catallaxy work as a form of social media, where (as I have taken to repeating), the foolish and obnoxious find comfort in oth...

There's a long, interesting article at The Vulture about the silly, silly modern political correctness in social media campaigning abou...

So, architects, at least, are thinking about what could be done if elevators went away from steel cabled up and down things, to something mo...