James Green

I miss being in a department with daily milk delivery; though I guess now I'm so woke I'd want oat milk... I'm clearly part of the problem

New Zealand Legislative Council - Wikipedia

The New Zealand equivalent voted themselves out of existence in 1950 ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zea...

came here to say the same. Though only some universities, and also eg farmers and random other groups get seats as well

Ever since I was a little girl, I knew that I wanted to answer 275 emails per day and argue with administrators. That’s why I chose a career in academia.

a man with a mustache is smiling and says " giggles " Alt: [Ron Swanson] a man with a mustache is smiling and says " giggles "

Fisher's Exact and Mann-Whitney U

Evidence for the adept conversation skills of hairdressers

(used to be funny when they would ask me about what I do (PhD era), and I'd reply that I study how people adapt their conversational style to the people they are speaking with)

There was some speculation he never got to visit his buildings, but having read to the end of the article, it seems that he did www.smithsonianmag.com/history/out-...

He never saw any of the buildings he designed at Duke! www.smithsonianmag.com/history/out-...

I feel like cereal should also belong on the pure milk point

I love this. I've always thought of it more as "add an ingredient" working up from crepes

Artichoke is probably actually a fruit, but although it's a lot of effort, it's worth it. Pomelo seems a solid choice

This February marks 20 years since I worked in a department of psychology. I would say I still mostly define myself as a psychology person, but that's a long time being an out of discipline person where I'm working

It's only getting worse —> 10 acres – 1 Gneeve; 2 Gneeves – 1 Sessiagh; 3 Sessiaghs – 1 Tate or Ballyboe; 2 Ballyboes – 1 Ploughland, Seisreagh or Carrow; 4 Ploughlands – 1 Ballybetagh, or Townland; 30 Ballybetaghs – Triocha Céad or Barony

map of the baronies of ireland with counties and provinces

And I'd forgotten about Irish baronies!  upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

Possibly related to UK rule of Ireland, but this seems pretty similar in Ireland, except via gaelic sports, there is a *lot* of pride in county. my university main campus is in two different counties

Maybe I should be happier about the New Zealand one then, that goes into striving for peace and freedom from corruption...

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

- Stephen Jay Gould

Awkwardly, this is also true of God Save the King (UK etc)

This trip through Aotearoa New Zealand has provided one illustration after another about the value of heroic conservation efforts.

I'm so delighted I accidentally switched from surveys to GPS trackers on ebikes...

The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.

Wait what
theconversation.com/the-worlds-2...

sounds very familiar, except my university has this amazing exemption where property purchases over €2million are exempt from any kind of oversight or responsibility...

Nothing like the smell of fresh data in the morning #rstats

Though, that's not to say that there is not some data uncleanliness

New Zealand and Ireland continuing to have a very normal one on house prices...

Growing fleet of automatic plate-recognition vehicles catching out Auckland drivers A fleet of 25 cars equipped with cameras are now patrolling Auckland's streets on a daily basis, hunting for parking infringements.

If only you get a fleet of cars that could drive over the whole county with number plate recognition and cameras to effectively enforce parking rules...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

A Tunnel to Transform Los Angeles The ambitious Sepulveda Transit Corridor project — an automated subway line underneath Bel Air — aims to do something rare in LA: Get people out of their cars.

“A year after the $1.1 billion overhaul,” which added a new lane each direction, “the 405’s rush hour drive times were a minute slower than they were before the workers broke ground. Five years later, traffic was worse at all times of day.”

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

This is really interesting; had been tinkering round with some things, and had planned to keep them anon, but will have to read this carefully

Back in the olden times, I used to do some cluster analysis, there are different ways in which links can be weighted and prioritised, plus this solution is only 2 dimensions. So it could be recency, could be a change in linkage, or it could specific analytic choices

I would have assumed (maybe wrongly) that increasing geothermal capacity (which is always on and strong through winter) would be a better strategy, though I don't know anything of the relative costs

Dipping into Lake Pūkaki: Locals and experts conflicted over Meridian Energy proposal The gentailer wants permission to draw the country's largest hydro lake down to lower levels than usual without needing special approval from Transpower.

And better than planning to drop Pukaki by a further 5m, even if that corresponds to hundreds of additional GWh www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...