Opinion Dominion

Given that there is much concern being expressed that Brazilian President Bolsonaro will be giving companies the go-ahead to bulldoze and mi...

In life, you only have so much time to learn about the rest of the world.  I've confessed before  about the large chunk of Western Eur...

From a review in Nature of a new book Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of W...

Interesting bit of history here , in the story of a Chinese American who went to the Supreme Court over the 14th Amendment.

As the NYT summarises: He has asserted that construction has begun on his border wall ( it has not ), that he is one of the most popular...

Hey it's Halloween, and I just read an account given by a couple of young American guys of the fright they received while camping: 23-...

So, if I understand this post correctly , the Niskanen Centre - the nice libertarians who don't disbelieve in climate change and who we...

This is, given the weird state of wingnut politics, big news.    Someone (presumably, a producer of the suckiest suck-up-to-Trump show on Fo...

I've admitted before that I have a fondness for really big statues, and so it's with interest that I see India is about to open a t...

As if climate change isn't enough of a long term worry, Real Climate has a lengthy post explaining the rise of mercury in the environmen...

I knew prolonged periods of weightlessness were not good for bones, eyes and muscle:  not sure that I had heard before that it shrinks parts...

Well, I'm always happy to read of people who think Word is pretty horrible as a word processing program, but Jason Wilson's explanat...

I did mean to link to Vox's detailed explainer about the Central American "caravan" last week , but better late than never.   ...

There was also an interesting article at Vanity Fair as to how Fox News is being run under Lachlan Murdoch.   It claims he is actu...

I have often linked to Bee Hossenfelder's Backreaction blog on physics.  She's a good writer, if presenting as somewhat eccentric in...

From the BBC: Shirley Thompson is hoping to become the oldest woman to row solo across an ocean. Remarkably, the 60-year-old, who is ori...

As Adam Server writes in The Atlantic,  Trump's caravan hysteria (promoted, even with the Soros conspiracy theory connection, on Fox Ne...

With all the false flag BS about the US mail bomber now evaporating away, we are left with Donald Trump whining like a 7 year old that of co...

I have to say, Episode 6 of Fargo Season 2 was just fantastic.  The acting, direction, writing:  just all brilliant.  Maybe not entirely cre...