Antarctic Mission 2019
Filing Submarino Chocolate Milk drink as 'Health Food'
And my "Kiwi Submarino" recipe
A fine tribute to 'New Zealand's Unknown Genius', Beatrice (Hill) Tinsley
A brilliant video, a fine tribute to a remarkable life. Years, no decades!, ago I vaguely knew of Beatrice Tinsley's work, on the life of galaxies, but would not have been able to name her. Then The Warehouse, who I worked for, rented some factory space in Beatrice
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The most average sized thing in the known universe?
Listened to this while riding the Hamilton Te Awa River Ride. It looks at a listener's question What's the most average sized thing in the known universe? I guessed before hearing and was way out. They look at it several ways, end up with some surprising
My inadvertent long-term sleep experiment | Time Out 2021-22 After
Time sleep, working, not working
End of Life Choice Act is now law
An important day in NZ today; End of Life Choice Act takes effect in New Zealand | Radio NZ The End of Life Choice Act has come into effect one year after nearly two-thirds of New Zealanders voted in favour of it in a referendum... The End of Life Choice Act
Where Was the Last Place Discovered on Earth?
The remarkable history of human discovery and a curious fact regarding Uranus and Antarctica. [youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfLVYr38D0Q&w=480&h=270]
Dr Helen Czerski on life in isolation (and a champagne tip) | Fully Charged
I saw Dr. Helen Czerski speak in Auckland, back in 2017, and in this video she shares things learnt about living in isolation doing oceanic research. Back then her presentation was mostly about her research studying the oceanic/atmospheric interface and how that influences climate. However it also included some
About Grocery washing | COVID-19
I’m reluctant to comment on the recent much shared YouTube showing how to wash your groceries, but happy to share this from someone is qualified to comment: From Twitter Thread: https://twitter.com/bugcounter/status/1243319180851580929 By Don Schaffner @bugcounter https://foodsci.rutgers.edu/schaffner/ Dr. Donald W. Schaffner
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The Pencil and the Battery Electric Vehicle
Had a chance, and interesting, coincidence today in my podcast playlist. Pocket Casts has my favourite podcasts set to auto-download and add themselves to ‘Play next’. Two episodes were ready to play when I left for the morning commute. The power of graphite; in pencils First up a new season
The Vaccination Chronicles: if only
Given the recent, unnecessary, measles outbreak in New Zealand I think Richard Saunders documentary deserves more coverage. It was made in, and references, Australia but the message is universal: “The Vaccination Chronicles: if only” can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTprFOmIjIg, and permission is given for
Antarctic Mission–A travel itinerary of movie soundtracks and a podcast hero?
My unconventional travel planning method...
Just a bit less of me
A “The Conversation” tweet about weight loss caught my eye yesterday. I know, thanks to an old blog post, in November 2006 I weighed 68 kg. I also know, thanks to another old blog post, I also weighed ~68 kg in 2013 but had been up to 75 kg sometime