Opinion Dominion

I posted recently about the law of Karma, and remembered today that I had been meaning to post about how it is illustrated in one very well ...

Seems to me that there is way too much talk by people who really wouldn't have a clue about the legal merits, and political outcome, of...

Oh look - Christianity Today has started a series of articles called "Engaging Buddhism."  This is the second one, looking at the ...

The impression I had from watching certain Youtube videos was that how the proton worked (with its internal oscillations between quarks) was...

A few comments about the news : *  it has suddenly brought up a story that had been reported before, but forgotten by most, even if we saw ...

With the historic by-election loss on the weekend, Malcolm Turnbull gets to go all "ha ha, told you so" : Turnbull, a moderate who...

I wasn't impressed with the sub-heading above a commentary piece in the New York Times (gift link) :   For more than two centuries, Amer...

Here it is:   One of the signatories is Elon Musk, whose deep thoughts have been revealed on Twitter to not be so deep, or reliable, at al...

I don't recall reading before about the attempt to rejuvenate human health by transfusing the blood of various animals into humans - in...

Babies seem to be better at keeping their lips firmly sealed during birth than had been assumed: It has been a longstanding assumption that ...

Look, it's from the Japan Today news site , so it's perfectly legit that I stumbled across it: Every spring, thousands of tourists f...

Key figures in artificial intelligence want training of powerful AI systems to be suspended amid fears of a threat to humanity. They have s...

 An essay by a doctor in the New York Times seems pretty wise on the matter of how we should feel about the question of whether a dying per...

You see, I am feeling more positive about Wes Anderson after The French Dispatch , which was his most amusing movie in a long time.  And it&...

The Economist has an article about the potentially troubled future of rice.  It pretty much gives the grain a bad rap: Rice’s contribution t...

I'm always interested in stories about new efforts to record the accumulated knowledge of mankind* via methods that aren't going to ...

I'm referring, of course, to the police releasing the body cam video of them going through the school to find the shooter in Tennessee y...

Well, I had forgotten until Twitter reminded me that today's mass shooter in American is not the first transgender person to "go po...

I feel like I've been on a bit of a meat bender lately.   Last night it was lamb shanks braised in red wine and tomato.   On mashed pota...