Opinion Dominion

Tax havens make GDP screwy

They ran tests on kitchen towels which had been used by families and not been washed for a month (!) and found lots of bacteria on them.   (...

Some psychologists seem to have too much time on their hands : A team of psychologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil...

I saw the reasonably well reviewed made for Netflix science fiction movie Annihilation on the weekend. I'm puzzled that it got any go...

Of course Steve Kates and his not-very-merry band of Western Civilisation catastrophists at Catallaxy think the instant classic G7 photograp...

Who knows what could come out of the Singapore summit?   Surely anything is possible when you put two vain , autocratic idiots in a room.  (...

I used to follow They Might be Giants very closely, but as with all bands, I found some diminishing returns on a couple of CDs and drifted a...

Seems that Anthony Bourdain was way more popular than I had realised.   There's a really major outpouring of grief and upset at his deat...

First the usual disclaimer:   like most white Australians, I don't have any detailed knowledge about aboriginal community management, pa...

I'm not entirely sure why people, including Jason Soon, should be so concerned over ANU or Sydney University saying "no thanks...

I suppose I am a little surprised about this, too: Math Bee: Honeybees Seem To Understand The Notion Of Zero The details: Howard train...

Tim Blair's been busy ridiculing Jonathan Green (that's nothing new) over the Meanjin cover storm in a (not very important) tea cup...

I presume that office workplace productivity in Brisbane, if not Australia, is at some sort of record low today as a result of the exquisite...

Trump, Fox News, and Twitter have created a dangerous conspiracy theory loop It shows how the latest Trump conspiracy tweet originated wit...

This review of his 12 Rules for Life book in the Times Literary Supplement pretty much seals it for me - Peterson can be safely ignored as ...

Someone at the Interpreter looks at the military capacity of China to stage an invasion of Taiwan, and makes this observation: ....the C...

I hadn't heard this before, from an interview about India suffering under climate change: Now let’s come to violence. What is really ...

Found via Peter Whiteford's tweets, an interesting blog post by Branko Milanovic about why Europe is having problems caused by its weal...

*  craft beer *  burger joints (other than the fast food chains) *  salmon (farming and eating) As it happens, I pretty much approve of ...