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Orange Guy is the official mascot for NZ elections.

IIRC Wolfram had a blog post about how everything is developing a data/computational angle - he called it Computational X a few years ago now. Fitting they would call this Computat…

weird - can't find anything from an australian source about this

niels bohr dissolved the nobel prize medals of colleagues in it and left it on his office shelf during wwII - the committee recast them after the war https://www.aip.org/history-pr…

Awesome - this is the website of the Te Awamutu space centre. "The Space Centre is a privately-funded project run by Dave Owen (Space Dave) and his family." Te Awamutu is a town wi…

it's a nice human scale unit - a bit like some countries still cling to inches as a length measure.

yes - i'm not a programmer but i need to translate business rules for my contractors to build. it helps us 'meet in the middle' when discussing abstract things.

moreon chem: https://www.understanding-cement.com/zero-carbon-cement.html

currently use a lot of rare metals like platinum. inc vol of fuel cells will drive up price of fairly inelastic supply of rare metals. or require step change in anode/cathode catal…

silica dessicant. chemists use it in their dessicators to keep things dry - pink is dry, blue is 'full' (i think, it's been 25 years...). i think it's a low level cobalt doping and…

you want to turn coal into gasoline? i think most people consider use of FT fuels as an approx. neutral carbon emissions assuming clean energy source. >>The process involves the hy…

made me smile: 95% of 5% == 5% of 95% - so no change in absolute numbers right?

MIT's Herbert Gross Calculus - done with a chalkboard and a camera. classic. https://www.openculture.com/2011/01/vintage_mit_calculus_les...

I don't see the problem - food gardens are banned in NZ: https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/18-06-2016/new-zealands-absur...

ha! nz's fluf mentioned. reviewed here: https://thespinoff.co.nz/irl/16-02-2022/inside-the-exclusive...

i read your comment as 'conflate our way out' and thought hhmmm sounds about right