Opinion Dominion

 Oh good:  a long essay at Aeon about how retrocausality might be the explanation for quantum entanglement. It's not the easiest read,...

It's fair to say that pre-colonial indigenous Australia had a PR problem in terms of their lifestyle which modern academia and education...

This crime story from America is noteworthy just for how improbable it sounds - a former police chief sent to jail for a decade of dealing ...

I posted not so long ago about the odd intensity of the culture war around Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny , and how the "bro...

Noted in the New York Times : When Sean Liang turned 30, he started thinking of the Curse of 35 — the widespread belief in China that whit...

I wonder - how many people have bothered reading the "Uluru Statement from the Heart", which is the basis for the whole Voice refe...

I've been saying for years and years - the costs of dealing with the increase in intensity of rainfall under climate change is likely to...

All Knowing Google (Youtube submind) recommended this video to me on the weekend, and in light of the upcoming Oppenheimer movie, I thought ...

Noticed this tweet this morning: I again feel I have to apologise for being cynical on this issue - but doesn't the fact that there are ...

John H - how do you manage to sometimes comment there and resist the urge to tell the host he's become a MAGA moron?   (I would ask the ...

Part of me - probably the vanity part - thinks it would be cool if my descendants (assuming there are any - grandchildren are never a certai...

I think I posted about this once before, but if I did, it is obviously still an idea being advanced: Optical data communications lasers can ...

From a brief book note on the Nature website: Ending Epidemics Richard Conniff MIT Press (2023) In 1900, one in three people died before t...

An interesting article here from NYT about the guy who has worked for years with Wes Anderson as his key grip (responsible for making the c...

With the issue of organised (or disorganised) lawlessness gaining more and more publicity in places as diverse as San Francisco and Alice Sp...

From one report about failed investigator Durham's appearance before committee yesterday: In a subsequent exchange with Rep. Tom McClin...

Well, when I say "runs in the family", at least his uncles.  (I haven't bothered Googling yet whether his Dad is known to have...

Surely I can't be alone in not knowing (or forgetting?) that tourist trips to more than 3 km under the Atlantic were available?   Actual...

As it happens, I heard this Background Briefing radio documentary yesterday about a stunningly unprofessional approach taken by a psycholog...

I quite like Noah Smith's essay on rabbits and how he's worked out that his fondness for them fits in with his general view of moral...