Opinion Dominion

As I hoped she would, Sabine Hossenfelder has a post up looking at the scientific legacy of Stephen Hawking , and it's larger than I wou...

Reuters has an article up about this : The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appointed a committee of scholars to prove that...

I reckon David Frum, writing in The Atlantic, is right in his interpretation of Trump's reluctance to point the finger at Russia: “A...

With Xi getting China's top job for as long as he likes, there's a lot of commentary around about how much the rest of the world sho...

Via Dr Beachcombing's site, this link discusses briefly the history of the appendectomy: In 1735, Dr. Claudius Amyand performed the...

A somewhat interesting piece by Ed Yong on some recent research on psychopaths.  (The suggestion being that they can see things from other ...

Spielberg's Ready Player One - a movie about which I have no particular expectations, given that I was never a gaming nerd - seems to ha...

Matthew Yglesias argues, using survey results mainly, that the debate over US campus "PC versus free speech" issue is not exactly...

The never ending back and forth about social disadvantage in remote aboriginal communities continues, with Warren Mundine, who now seems co...

Look at what Russian media is suggesting about possible motives as to why Britain (yes, Britain) poisoned their Russian double agent in publ...

High altitude living - even at pretty modest altitude - seems associated with more suicide: High-altitude areas--particularly the US inte...

Surprisingly, the Washington Post has another opinion piece by the guy who sounds to have come from a credible background, but who is now as...

Found via a Peter Whiteford re-tweet:   an article explaining another way (the first, which I have noted before , is their health system) i...

This whole Jordan Peterson thing - it's one of those odd situations where I have the feeling that I should be more sympathetic to his ph...

Seriously, these statements of Paul Keating about Trump and foreign policy make no sense whatsoever: Mr Keating on Friday said he had not...

I made mention in a recent post how people who defend high level, realistic looking violence in video games having no skepticism at all of p...

Look, I'm not going to bother copying any of this rather unhinged comment by my "favourite" nutcase in need of medication at ...

Yes, the Stephen Colbert explanation of Sam Nunberg's wild (drunk? drug affected?) afternoon of media appearances was pretty funny:

The way the Trump tariff process has been announced sounds to me very much like behaviour that in schools or the workplace would be called b...

When I first read the headlines yesterday about McDonalds in the US flipping its symbol upside down for International Women's Day, I th...