Opinion Dominion

This is an interesting Comment is Free article at The Guardian - arguing that Christianity really caught on as a result of a plague in the ...

First, have a Happy Christmas, everyone. And now, let's ask Musk's AI thingee Grok to generate a nativity scene featuring New Jersey...

For some of us, it's a boring, tedious drone that robs of the airwaves of something better... Each to their own, of course:  but the thi...

It's the hair on the dog that does it for me 😀.

I'm finding it a bit hard to think of a worse year over the last several decades, in a "reasons to feel optimistic about the direct...

This is at the Nature website : In 1773, US polymath Benjamin Franklin argued that scientists should try to invent a method of embalming suc...

I think the Medical Journal of Australia used to run humorous short pieces at Christmas, so I had a look at it today, and instead became dep...

Ross Douthat seems to have had such a good holiday in Italy, visiting a famous Benedictine monastery, that he has written a column headed: R...

This research sounds important: Dark energy 'doesn't exist' so can't be pushing 'lumpy' universe apart, physicists s...

Have a look at this very well made, graphics filled, article in the Washington Post that explains a lot about the rising ocean, and in part...

 Here's the start of an article at The Atlantic entitled: Postpone Your Pleasures, And enjoy them all the more. which I haven't read...

Bluesky content.  You should use it.

*   Clive Robertson, the cranky persona-ed news reader and broadcaster, died last week .   I hadn't thought about him for years, but his...

I see that Sabina Hossenfelder has a video up about her scepticism of Musk's Mars colonisation plans. If anything, I reckon it was way,...

Yeah, I've slowed down a bit in my reading of the abridged version of Journey to the West , and I note as follows: a.     it takes to ab...

Stancil, who it seems annoys a lot of people for reasons unclear to me, has (along with David Roberts) been one of the most consistent messe...

So, we're getting a fair bit of handwringing over much of the public reaction to that US health fund executive being murdered: While I a...

The New York Times has an article about this: Black Americans experience schizophrenia and related disorders at twice the rate of white Amer...