NASA has released a collection of audio recordings from Mar’s surface which reveals the sounds of weather, seismic events and other unexplained phenomena which were described as “peculiar” as they could not be easily explained. (Aliens?) The sounds were actually nicknamed “dinks and donks”. They utilised a tool called a Seismic Experiment for Interior Stricture …
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Watersports and boating have always been a major part of people’s lives in NZ and we are pioneers in many sports such as sailing and have a world class boat building industry. For a long time boating and water sports have been limited by the need to travel through water by displacing water and dealing …
As we all know, since the development of the Ford model T which was the first mass produced car in the early 1900’s, the automobile has transformed the way we live, shaped the cities we live in and has had a major effect on the lifestyle of us all today. This is especially seen in …
I believe the building blocks that make up who we are are essentially our past experiences, memories and the world around us that we have been exposed to. These vital aspects of our past build our perception of the world around us, our place within it and ultimately control our behaviors, opinions and beliefs. Throughout …
Science is essentially a collection of ‘best guesses,’ theories which explain what we observe until another theory comes along to explain it even better. String theory is a great example of this; a theory created to explain some things we don’t understand, but it still has some inconsistencies which are yet to be figured out. …
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Have you ever been really stressed and had someone tell you to ‘just breathe?’ As annoying as this can feel in the moment, they actually have a good point! Deep breathing has been found to reduce anxiety, stress and fatigue. When we’re anxious we naturally take short, quick breaths, exhaling more than we inhale. As …
You’ve probably heard of the Myers-Briggs personality test; it’s one of the most common personality test used all over the world.[1] I have definitely seen it a lot over the years, with school careers advisors, in leadership courses, and of course every time a friend asks me which type I am and I have to …
Economics has long been criticized for being pseudoscience – it uses carefully designed mathematical models, yet very often fails to predict the future trend; it claims to study human behavior in a scientific way, yet fails to understand the messy nature of human beings. In this blog, I will argue why economics is a type …
Bubble nets hmmm… You mean, the small nets that you blow bubbles through? The ones you used to love playing with when you were a kid? No, unfortunately not. Researchers. Scientists. People. They are the ones that are finding new ideas, new creations, new solutions to all questions and wonders we pose to the world. …
Imagine a 3 years old kid, who needs to use his finger to count numbers. How many numbers can he count up to? 10? 20? or more? Well, he can count up to 1023 if he knows binary ;). So how does that work? What is Binary? Binary number is similar to decimal number. But …
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