This week I've got an eclectic mix of topics. I cover Matariki weekend, the awful Roe v. Wade US supreme court decision and the implications here, and look at my carbon footprint.
Bronwyn is taking a break this week, but Mark has contributed an article about the Tartarian Empire.
Enjoy!
This weekend we saw the first official celebration and statutory holiday for the Māori new year - Matariki. Matariki is the Māori name for the cluster of stars known as the Pleiades. We can see the ... (509 words)
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Last week it was announced that the US Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade - the landmark case from 1973 that protected the rights of pregnant people in the US to have abortions. The ruling set ... (725 words)
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This weekend I took a look at the FutureFit website. This site is designed to make people aware of their carbon footprint - the amount that their household is contributing to climate change through ... (403 words)
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NZ Skeptics has been running a project that investigates products sold in pharmacies that are based on pseudoscience - you know the sort of stuff - homeopathy, and various herbal remedies with scant ... (128 words)
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I like to keep an eye on some of the more weird and wacky conspiracy theorists in New Zealand, as well as some of the more dangerous ones - I'm not sure why, but it feels like a disproportionate ... (1112 words)
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