Opinion Dominion

Sean Carroll has a new book out, promoting the Everett Many Worlds theory as being correct even if (to say the least) counter-intuitive, and...

Oh look - a really long essay about Orwell and 1984 in particular , which I think gives plenty of ammunition to my unpopular but resolute po...

I have never been to the Netherlands, and didn't understand how some of their "let's live well below sea level" worked for...

I caught up with the 1995 Michael Mann film Heat for the first time last night.  (It was a cheap hire on Google.)   While it was sort of am...

Jack the Insider, the ever genial blokey writer, says today (in relation to the apparent suicide of that ex footy player) that he too has h...

The internet makes it easy to remember things now. This story:   Cockpit coffee spill forces commercial jet to make emergency landing  ...

Not a bad, short column here about the utterly ridiculous Tucker Carlson saying that he's glad John Bolton has gone, because he was a m...

From The Guardian: Parts of eastern Spain received what in some places was the heaviest rainfall on record on Thursday, as storms wrea...

I wonder if vaping JC from Catallaxy invested in some vaping company's shares?   Or if he is still vaping himself.  Because businesses i...

It's been a while since I had a rat post, but this story in The Atlantic about researchers who taught rats to play hide and seek (with ...

I hadn't read of this before ( thanks, ABC ):  Wall Street is not what it was, with investment banks moving out into other parts of New ...

From the Onion.

At the New Daily , there's a story about the increase in government debt, and the uncertainty as to where it all stops. Take this illu...

The Catholic Herald has an article entitled The Church used to have a powerful economic voice. What went wrong? and that is a pretty good q...

An article at The Conversation talks about a recent UK study indicating that vegetarian/vegan diets are associated with a higher risk of st...

As I have said recently, the apparent triumph of veganism over vegetarianism bothers me, because you read so very often how certain key nutr...

Not swearing, but literal cursing, is discussed in this fascinating article in Japan Times. Everyone who has been to Japan has seen the vo...

There is an article at the New York Times about suicide in the US Air Force in general, and talking about one case the writer knew about in...

Can't say that I have detected any obvious sign of Boris Johnson "winning" at anything yet . His performance has generally l...