We are not alone. No, I’m not talking about aliens. No, not about surveillance either. We’ve been living with another intelligent life form for a long time. In fact, they’ve been here much longer than we have. They’ve developed their society over tens of millions of years, creating a highly efficient and complex social hierarchy …
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The Hybrid
Nuclear power is a bit controversial. On the one hand, we’re poisoning our planet with CO2 every second we’re not using nuclear power. On the other hand, every second that we do use nuclear power, we’re producing nuclear waste that’ll poison our planet in a few million years. And let’s not forget humanity: we need …
Unicode Magic
This blog post is fingerprinted. If you copy-paste it somewhere that can be indexed I will be able to find it, and prove beyond reasonable doubt that you copied it from me. This blog isn’t being served by me, but if it was I could serve a slightly different sentence to each visitor and see …
Logical time
How many metres in a kilometre? 1000. How many millilitres in a litre? 1000. How many seconds in a day? Not quite so easy is it. Well, there are 86 400 seconds in a day (depending on your definition of a day but that a whole other thing). Surely there is a simpler, more logical …
I don’t like pandas
Pandas are cute, right? Well yeah, but does that mean that they are good? Pandas are probably not the best species to spend our money on. This is for plenty of reasons, Firstly there are plenty of other species that make a large contribution to keeping the ecosystem running such as the mangrove dwelling crab …
DnD psychology
Dungeons and Dragons also known as DnD is a tabletop, role-playing game which was created in 1974 by Gary Gygax. In the game, you can either fight monsters which come from a wide range of cultural backgrounds or you can role-play through different parts of standard medieval fantasy life. This creates a secondary world where …
Could taking away roads be the solution to our traffic problems?
I’m sure everyone has been stuck in traffic before, and while you’re waiting for the car to move, you’ve wondered why can’t they just build more roads, so that all of this would go quicker? There is a so-called paradox; Braess’ paradox, which says that in some specific cases removing a road might actually be …
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WHY YOU WERE PART OF THE 3.5%
On Friday the 27th of September there was a global climate strike in which it was reported by Schools Strike 4 Climate NZ that over 3.5% of our total population participated in the strike, the second highest participation rate per capita. That’s at least 170,000 people demanding climate action, or at least concerned enough to …
You’re never lonely when you hug your teddy bear
This article has been approved by Winnie the Pooh. Have you ever been walking with two other friends and been that one person walking behind or in front because there wasn’t enough space on the footpath for all three of you? Social exclusion be like that sometimes. But, there is a way to alleviate the …
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Measles – What Is It, and Why Should We Care?
I’m sure you’ve all heard about it – measles seems to be the buzz word of 2019. Whether it was someone in your classes, or just in the news, 1868 people have been diagnosed with measles in New Zealand this year. So what is measles, and why do we all care so much? Measles is …
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