Opinion Dominion

Tim Wilson's not-very-merry band of "don't touch my government refund of tax I didn't pay" retirees are getting pushy...

I've noted before that Sinclair Davidson has a solid history of bad (and self serving, for a libertarian) calls on Royal Commissions, a...

Abraham Loeb was the key guy suggesting that the recent asteroid Oumuamua was possibly an alien probe, and he like to think science fiction-...

This is topical - Trump talked about stopping HIV transmission in his State of the Union speech (something Conservatives commentary has made...

Seems to me that the State of the Union addresses from any US President are weird bits of self serving, insincere theatre, and it's a b...

About time I noted the news about the wandering north magnetic pole:  I see that Vox has a good summary: The locations of magnetic north...

Last week, I discussed an article from The Conversation regarding the advances in meat preservation (refrigeration and canning) in the Victo...

Am I the only person flabbergasted that a high rise apartment building in Melbourne can start to burn up because of cigarette flung off a b...

Pretty much from the "only in America" category, I see a Vox headline: Why Bible-inspired diets and fitness plans are catching ...

I see that the matter of whether it's ethical (or just a good idea) to go back in time and kill baby Hitler was on the internet recently...

Tim Wilson has been attracting much attention for his ridiculously blatant partisan hijacking of the economics committee. One wonders - c...

Lasers have been used to send targeted, quiet messages to someone from several meters away, in a way that no one nearby would be able to he...

Samsung announces it has a new 1TB chip for use in mobiles and tablets.   It is, quite frankly, incredible what is being fit on a chip this...

From an AEON essay, by an anthropologist who got into studying fatherhood: In the first instance, as someone who began her graduate career...

NPR talks about a film looking at the stories of (some) Jews who chose to "hide in plain sight" from the Nazis in WW2: Hanni We...

Gee, I'm finding I get a ridiculous amount of pleasure from watching Rosehaven on the ABC now. It's just the best comedy writing ...

The Illinois State University,  of all places, has developed a high protein rice cultivar: Utomo and his team developed a high-protein lin...