Music
My interest in cosmology and music meant this headline from a New Zealand Symphony Orchestra newsletter appealed. Raising money for the Big Bang - nzso.co.nz NZSO players and their friends put their shoulders to the wheel in a Wellington concert that will raise money for some new percussion instruments.
Science
String theory meets The Simpsons? How a fake word from The Simpsons ended up in a perfectly cromulent string theory paper – Sciam Observations: Scientific American Blog
Graeme Hill had a special moon science session, with Grant Christie, marking the anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon. While the Apollo images video are familiar seeing, and standing under, a...
Science
The Heineken World Rugby Cup 2007 Continental Shift advert shows Rugby teams pushing the continents together to form a mega-continent. Maybe I’m missing something: If you are standing on a conti...
Science
New Scientist have bundled a collection of articles concerning the common climate myths and misconceptions. Some of these arguements are cited by both sides of the climate debate. I’ve shown the title...
Religion
This is a brilliant interview with Richard Dawkins from “ The Agenda ”. Richard Dawkins | Can We Live by Reason Alone? Tonight on The Agenda: world-renowned scientist Richard Dawkins and his...
Comedy
How could the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) threaten our national icon, the New Zealand Kiwi (Apteryx) ? This submission to a well recognised Government Conservation Agency explains it all:...
Religion
"Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins and astrology ends and astronomy begins." - Christopher Hitchens onegoodmove: Lou Dobbs - Christopher Hitchens Lou Dobbs interviews Christopher Hitchens author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything… onegoodmove: Lou Dobbs - Christopher Hitchens Lou Dobbs interviews
Science
Bruce comes up with some great ideas on how New Zealand should respond to climate with action and lateral thinking rather than just paying carbon tax… Where to from here for NZ? - Science and Te...
GPS and Mapping
I’m a bit late with this but every time I try imperial based CAD templates or look at database tables that must handle Imperial I’m so glad that about 30 years ago this happened. 30 Years of the...
Automobile
This post is a result of reading two articles in the worlds best auto magazine: Car Magazine There is a short but interesting interview in Car Nov 2006 (pg 140) where Rinaldo Rinolfi, VP Fiat Power...
I wouldn’t wish this on anyone but it’s a sad fact that some will be in the terrible position where they are potential organ donors. New Zealand is desperate for organ donors but it’s important that i...
