Posts by David Hood
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Hard News: Media Take: The Easter Show, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I think you need to parse that one a little carefully, because I'm assuming you're including those who tick the "object to state" box.
Nope, 2013 census total New Zealand:
No Religion: 1635345
Christian: 1858977
Object to State: 173034
Total Stated: 3901167 -
minor typo- the post starts "When Fiona and became parents"
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Sorta related to the whole dim light thing, human beings emit photons
http://io9.com/human-bodies-glow-proving-that-the-world-is-weirder-th-1692485686
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Ian, a Carrington Event these days would simultaneously produce awesome Aurora and fry modern infrastructure.
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A response to the Atlantic article, criticizing the clash of civilizations narrative.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/clash-civilizations-isnt
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This was in my reading list yesterday evening
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Hard News: When the fast track seems a…, in reply to Jeremy Andrew,
Or we could learn from the Germans
England had Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge.
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I think I’ve found the data, Edit {I thought at a glance there was one subset that had the two at 1 & 2 in 1979, but I was wrong, it does seem to be the data though}
http://women.govt.nz/sites/public_files/students-occupational-choice.pdf
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My daughter is generally seen as a high preforming young (highschool) scientist, and does an answer science questions on Tumblr (as that is a young peoples domain). Her one minimum page biology homework report she wrote last night was two pages and included graphs with error estimation.
While she is going into the sciences, there are a number of branches she does not want to go near because of what she has seen of people in the area. She much prefers the idea of being in physics doing signals analysis with computers, to the idea of being in computer science doing signals analysis with computers. And part of the is the culture.
That said, she would probably make the point that a lot of stuff discussed for children is Engineering rather than Science (and that most mad scientists are actually mad engineers).
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Disused quarry, North East Valley, Dunedin
