The guy who takes his budgie to the vet? First a cat sniffs at it. And then a Labrador and finally the bird cage is moved into the waiting room. He then gets a huge bill and asks them to itemise it. "Well, it's 500 for the CAT scan, another 500 for the lab tests, and 1000 for the PET scan"
The language in my house was pretty crisp as we tried to watch the damn news and find out if we still had a government and a capital city.
That's PM right?
The rest of us normal men just forwarded it our wives with a cute emoji and something like "goals"
My take - just on my blog tho, not Nature :-) But when I got asked about science in interviews about the mission my answer was that it was an engineering test flight - so I didn't expect a science return from this mission but hoped to see it from later ones
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Is it anthropogenically forced racism, or just regular variation in the racism climate?
TBH I think that will make more Type I errors that Type II.
Parents all over the country are firing up WhatsApp chats with members of the VUW community right now.
Posting this without comment for the politics tragics - Woolies, which used to be called "Countdown" sells "Leaderbrand" iceberg lettuces.
Nae King! Nae quin! Nae Laird! Nae master!
So this looks like progress.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...
I’ve been running a home weather station on and off for like 20 years, and I’ve never seen lightning like this. Incredible stuff.
A nice story about a local "village" that's much more walkable (and more easily and safely accessible by bike from neighbouring burbs) thanks to some recent street upgrades.*
*which the article doesn't mention, but which are clearly playing a role in the resurgence: www.stuff.co.nz/home-propert...
The topic being carne de burro or politics more generally? (Tbh it was mainly that I couldn't resist the pun)
"Carne de burro" puts "led by donkeys" in a whole new light. #eattherich
Some weekend reading:
We've all looked up at the sky and wondered "how does it work" – following along as humans travel to the Moon gives us a unique perspective on our place in the cosmos.
My thoughts on Artemis, as someone who looks at the sky for a living...
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Rain most rainous here in the Queen City. ☔️
"Carne de burro" puts "led by donkeys" in a whole new light. #eattherich
"Learn to code"
Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection.
So forgive me if I smell a rat.
It's an astonishing shot.
“‘Copy, Moon joy’ is ‘one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind’ for the Instagram age.
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It summed up the week for me and a surprisingly large slice of the public.”
It’s been a big beautiful week for people who love space (and people who love people who love space!) 🌝🥰
Your occasional reminder that I have a mailing list (along with my blog) -- it's eclectic and infrequent and (I like to think) thoughtful!
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What I love about images from space is that they instantly show us the full three dimensional geometry of our planetary home. Like this gorgeous new image of a crescent Earth peeking over the shoulder of a crescent Moon - me on Artemis II and finding my moon joy... excursionset.com/blog/2026/04...
But before they had towed it beyond the environment
Nooo, anything but the Cycleway....
Not "Big Day Out" then??
And unions are for factories not PhD students. (I heard about a hums student at Princeton being told "I will see to it you will never work in the field" if they pushed for a union by a prominent person in their field who is hard left intellectually)
