François Lévêque Mines ParisTech A few hundred years ago, who would have dreamed that the humble Christmas tree would one day be an immense global success? Certainly not Martin Luther, who is said to have decorated a tree with candles to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Nor Prince Albert,
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The old saying, ‘Birds of a feather stick together’ is once more proving to be true. An article in the NZ Herald has Jacinda Ardern once again exposing her true self. Evidently, she is featured in a new Netflix documentary hosted by Harry and Megan to celebrate “inspirational leaders”. Under
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“Oh, Despinda,” sighed Despinda’s Mummy. “How many times have I told you that if you can’t say something nice, then don’t say anything at all.” “But,” whined her daughter, “then I would have to be udderly silent, and gosh, how would that work? I mean to say,
The Doctor Recently I wrote about how “magic tricks” are being used to distract us from the important things that are happening right now. And I wondered what the Three Waters spectacle was distracting us from. James Roguski has the answer. He reports that the WHO has been secretly working
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Someone once said that if you tell a lie often enough people will believe it, particularly if the lie is a big one. Make no mistake, the Covid vaccination lie is a very big one. How does she explain the current guidelines for overseas nursing recruitment? Likewise, NZ hospitals still
Nurses for Freedom NZ Dear Friends and Colleagues Thank you for supporting Nurses for Freedom NZ during 2022; we appreciate each and everyone of you! Thank you especially to all those who have supported us financially, with kind words and prayers. I thought I would take this opportunity to give
OpenAI has trained a model called ChatGPT to interact in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction
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Many commentators and pundits like making lists of best that or worst this, announcing “winners” and “losers”. I thought I’d do something different and give a list of New Zealanders of the Year. This list won’t be some woke travesty that is as perverse as it is diverse.
Was Bloomfield our NZ Director of Health gullible or just straight-out lazy? The lead-up to and during the first lockdown he was far too trusting of the information he was receiving from The World Health Organization and The NIH. During the first lockdown and afterwards very interesting research
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