There’s been a big fuss recently about social media posts showing Green Party and Te Pāti Māori MPs a with Mongrel Mob members. My first reaction was, sure, meet with the gangs but why allow it to go public? And then I wondered whether I’d have the same reaction to politicians meeting with billionaires…
Presidential candidate Bolsonaro in Brazil has sparked a meme where people write self-descriptions on their hands after he wrote ‘corrupto’. Mistake! He was referring to his opponent but now everyone sees it as Bolsonaro’s self-description. How would you describe yourself in one or two words that fit on your hand?
The Old Ghost Road is a great outdoor experience in many ways, with community being central to the experience.
Trump is leading the world’s politicians to behave ever worse, including in New Zealand. Although topping Trump’s recent statement daring Iran to take out a couple of California cities might be hard.
Who to vote for this election? And why does one even bother voting when the options seem so poor? And the chances of your personal vote being important are miniscule. Actually, there is a good reason…
Does Jevons’ Paradox, which proposes that increased efficiency in resource use leads to MORE use rather than less, hold for EVs?
What do you do when the top AI scientist predict a 10% chance of annihilation of humans in the next decade? Our answer was to go shopping for Mum’s 93rd birthday.
The UN has proposed a change of map projections, from the Mercator which stretches the countries at the poles, to the Equal Earth, which shows countries and seas in their true relative sizes. Why might this be important? And should New Zealand be concerned about looking even smaller than before while being at the bottom corner of the map?
My brain is boggled by the global push to build massive data centres consuming vast amounts of electricity while the world needs to reduce its environmental impact for humanity to survive. Why are we on this track?
It’s a hard time to be young and the reaction of some is to live in the moment. That’s not such a bad plan, particularly if you don’t believe in an afterlife.
