Impacts can be positive e.g., offshore turbines provide shelter for sealife. I'm not selling them but I am still burning oil...
Once interviewed a fella who had designed (but not built) a generator that used the ocean swell to generate electricity. Basically a triangular shaped platform with three independently operating sections that drove a centrally turbine. Clever. Would have ...
I don't follow, or rather don't follow for long. I wasn't aware this was a problem, or question of netiquette. Honestly I have better things to do, and my only expertise over what is displayed here is in an area that's gets little intelligent debate (...
A key publication on Maori ecological practices is Athol Anderson, 2002 "A fragile plenty" http://hdl.handle.net/1885/94194 Hard won sustainability ethic...
There is no singular definition of science which was my point about the bizarre (but I feel somehow contrived) Listener 7 attack on Maori (let's be honest, that's what it was) in defence of what is actually a social activity, i.e., research undertaken with...
The lack of replication - no two ecological experiments can be the same (and most have been very small in scale) - but I'd argue that for most sciences, the temporal component always passing into the future. (On that, I would deny Indigenous assertions of ...
The debate provoked by the Listener 7 is primarily political, not methodological. This is not the first challenge to an Indigenous knowledge system and it won't be the last. Matauranga Maori can be interpreted as a continuum of knowledge systems, from so-...
If only. More like same old, same old. Imagine the footage from all of Churchill's piss ups...
I saw 122 comments on the National party reshuffle and only 1 in this. Thought I'd try and redress the imbalance, picking up on the interplay of capital and labour noted above. Value can flip pretty quickly. I've had plant based burgers too, and will have ...
Ex PM John Key is almost always called "John Keyes" when people I know mention him at all.
No, individual Pakeha are not to blame. However, all Pakeha have benefited from colonisation and many continue to do so. So, arh, could y'all help decolonise?
Nice try but events unfold, hence disaster response and recovery always suffers for a lack of preparedness. There's no cycling back to strengthen that building etc.
What's disgusting about her? Can't be her whiteness, right...
Actually there is. The Signal Code
Why feck is NZ vaxing Europeans! ;)
Sounds like a medium sized spreadsheet job to me, team of 4 over a long weekend, then a team of 2 to surveil relevant databases.
4th wave where I am in Canada (SK). Numbers 4x last August when we were in semi-lockdown. Neighboring Alberta has dropped many rules over isolation. Hard rains gonna fall ... (cruel metaphor given the hundreds of wildfires exacerbated by climate change).
PM's role has always included pimp. I expect them to travel and fly the flag. And the current one is extremely well known and widely admired. I'd send her to the US first, then China on the way home ... and definitely take the baby.
C'mon. Most of Australia is a scorched bbq area.
Cherry duly picked...
Several years ago, I discouraged my students (undergrad and postgrad) from reading social media or mainstream media on Maori issues, and essentially disengaged my courses from researching much of the internet-located debates, due to online abuse. Stuff was...
Whatever happened to the Greenhouse Gas/emmissions blah blah research collaboration between industry and CRIs? Was set up maybe 8, 9 years ago?
"Requiring a negative pre-departure test likely influences behaviour." Exactly. Wife and kids just out of MIQ, avoiding contact with her father (heart) and sister (frontline health) for 5 more days. Self-isolated for 17 days in Canada, 3 Covid tests @$250 ...
My wife and 2 of our 3 kids just boarding an AirNZ flight outta LAX, returning after 4 years away. They're rather excited. I'm working on (Canada) with 17 yo till he graduates high school and we'll follow. We're pretty optimistic...
"The Chinese system prioritises communal welfare, so it has raised millions out of poverty." Not sure if you mean the Chinese Communist Party or some sort of traditional Chinese society. The CCP plunged China into famine which it took many years to dig ...
Once read of a Buddhist sect that believed we went through 10,000 rebirths and then attained nirvana, regardless of karma and our attitudes and behaviours. You can see why they purged that...
You're not wrong Lettuce. Trouble is the Chinese, and the Israelis, and anyone else we wanna lecture can always cite Taika Waititi on NZ racism, or Nicky Hager on NZ war crimes. If they wanted to be really smug, they'd quote the bible, the bit about the ...
The Scottish referendum was closer.
"...there were uncles giving lectures on ancient Irisk history..."
Wow, he was bad. More fun than I expected!
Listening on internet radio from a sun drenched deck on the Canadian prairies. Better than cricket for summer entertainment... [Not really]
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