Because thinking about the world is fun…
- Outrageous Enough?
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. - Voting dilemmas
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… - EVs, an exception to Jevon’s Paradox?
Does Jevons’ Paradox, which proposes that increased efficiency in resource use leads to MORE use rather than less, hold for EVs? - AI Annihilation & Shopping
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. - Equal Earth vs Mercator
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?
2 thoughts on “Thoughts in Uncertain Times”
The way you connect different topics like oil prices and government policies really made me think about how these interconnected forces shape the way we live. It’s easy to forget that even the smallest decision, like a font change in diplomatic documents, can have larger consequences.
In front of a mud yurt appears to be the remains of an older mud yurt after a heavy rain ?
In the future, robots will do all the work so heat won’t bother people lying in a fan breeze