Articles tagged with "eye"

I first learned about RCTA - Race Change To Another - a few years ago from my daughter. It was one of the weird and wonderful topics she found on TikTok. Here's a screenshot from a TikTok video that gives something of an overview of what RCTA adherents are trying to do. In this case, their aim is to change their appearance from that of a white Australian woman to South Korean - along with a name change from Caitlyn to Chaewon.

Our first article in this week's newsletter is from Patrick, who has summarised a recent Nature article about potential underestimation of sea-level rise over the next 60 years. Patrick's article ends with a quote from Edison that, when I read it, seemed too good to be true. So, like any good skeptic, I jumped onto Google to see if there was any truth to the quote. It turns out that it's likely to be true, at least in broad strokes.

Welcome to this week's NZ Skeptics newsletter. I'm going to be pretty brief as I've have a busy weekend, but there were a few stories that caught my eye this week.

The morning of the 15th of March I woke up ready for a positive day with my son at Cathedral square, to attend the school strike for climate.

It was an eye opener. Under the stern glare of past headmasters of Kings College, the NZ Skeptics were holding their annual dinner that always goes with the annual conference.

That was never six months just then -- it felt much longer. Banised to the depths of New Zealand, in Tuatapere (almost as far south west as you can get in the South Island), life took on a gentler pace. Momentous things did happen -- the stoat population declined by 300 around where we were, and the yellowheads had a successful breeding season.

Do horses really have a distinct set of personality types or is it just a load of equine excreta?