The vicious ignorance of the identity politics-obsessed left was rarely better displayed than when it was announced that Israeli actor Gal Gadot had been picked to play Cleopatra in a new film. The tiny, cerebrally-challenged leftist puddle that is Twitter immediately erupted with its trademark brainless yapping. “Whitewashing!” they shrieked.
John Maunder sunlive.co.nz Rainfalls for the month of February have been recorded in Tauranga since 1898 (except for 1904, 1908, and 1909). The graph of February rainfalls in Tauranga shows the range of rainfalls from a high of 343 mm in 1936 to a low of only 7
John Maunder The role of weather and weather and weather forecasting in yachting has for many years been an integral part of many National Meteorological Services as well as commercial weather services. In New Zealand, the Meteorological Service has seconded one of the service’s weather forecasters for many international
Luke O’Neill Trinity College Dublin Luke O’Neill is an immunologist in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin. His research area is the molecular basis of inflammatory diseases. He has written several popular science books including his most recent ‘Never Mind the B*ll*cks, Here’
Covid Plan B covidplanb.co.nz Covid hysteria has highlighted the strange human tendency to want to believe the worst. No matter how bad something is, we are fascinated by the possibility it could be even worse. Journalists are subject to the same psychological trait, but are also driven by
You can forget climate change or global pandemics. Scientists have unveiled an even more devastating doomsday scenario: We’re all going to suffocate. Nearly everything on Earth. Eventually… like, a billion years eventually. All complex aerobic life on Earth as we know it will eventually die as oxygen levels deplete
One of the major problems with solar power is not just its cost – both financial (which is usually hidden by massive, market-distorting government subsidies) and environmental (likewise conveniently hidden away in the Chinese boonies) – but its unreliability. The simple fact is that the sun doesn’t shine all the time.
Today in Things That Didn’t Age Well: the great foot-and-mouth scare of ’01, starring a very familiar face. Australia is rushing specialist veterinarians to Britain as countries across the world move to contain the catastrophic outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that began there. And amid warnings that Australia could lose
Marc Grey In a previous article, the various COVID vaccines coming to New Zealand were discussed. While examining the mRNA (Pfizer) vaccine it was stated that: …it is RNA, it can be used immediately by the cell’s molecular machinery to make the protein (so does not enter the cell
Maureen Ferran Rochester Institute of Technology Maureen Ferran earned her M.S. and Ph.D in Genetics from the University of Connecticut, where she studied how viruses evade the host immune response. She then went to the Laboratory of Viral Genetics within the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
21st century wire ronpaulinstitute.org This is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary stories of the entire ‘global pandemic’ which has turned the world upside down over the twelve months. In an article published by Lockdown Skeptics by Derek Winton entitled, The Imperial Model and its Role in the UK’
As I’ve written elsewhere, Mars has exercised a hold on the collective imagination quite unlike any other planet for the past couple of centuries. Until space probes in the mid-60s first showed us that it is a hostile, frozen, barren desert world, Mars was the paradigmatic home of intelligent
I’ve written before about my “Lushy’s Laws”: a critical-thinking guide to not being fooled by the media. The first and second laws are: Never believe a headline; and when an article claims, “science says…” or “new study shows…”, assume that it doesn’t, until proven otherwise. So when
The Star Trek science fiction universe is a particular favourite of internet socialists. Partly that’s because of its ever-woker story-lines (Star Trek: Discovery, I’m looking at you), but mostly because of its “no money and all our stuff for free” utopia. But, tellingly, to realise such a utopia,
