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  • https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/504994/christopher-luxon-s-reo-maori-lessons-paid-for-by-taxpayer


  • Julie Suk is a professor of law at Fordham University. Her new book “After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do About It” is about why the law has not succeeded at eliminating patriarchy despite advances in formal gender equality. Suk acknowledges that legal feminists like Ruth Bader Ginsburg helped bring about…


  • The team show how a silicon nitride photonics crystal with a thin silicon membrane can achieve the high levels of reflectivity in the 1300nm to 1500nm wavelengths required for light sails. The potential in the sails is significant with the manufacturing techniques able to scale up to several metres which may well set the scene…


  • A really good list of the factors that made a difference between Apple and Google. Apple rules the iPhone’s App Store with an iron fist — sideloading outside it is not allowed. Google lets anyone install any app on an Android phone. But guess which one of these two companies has an illegal monopoly, according to…


  • The award for the most comically dissonant image goes to: …visual juxtaposition aside. This is really promising. Sisal is an invasive plant in rural Kenya, where it is often planted as livestock fencing and feedstock. It doesn’t require fertilizer, and its leaves can be harvested all year long over a five- to seven-year span. Odundo…


  • Native forests cover about 29% of New Zealand’s landmass, but once extended across as much as 85% of the country. A new proposal to “recloak” Papatūānuku by restoring 2.1 million hectares to healthy indigenous forest over 10 years seeks to create an “enduring carbon sink” that boosts biodiversity and enhances landscape resilience at the same…


  • Smallest USB-C MIDI Synth

    I love everything about this… The purity of thought is :cheffy_kiss: Interestingly the design works with the hub, and it works if I plug it into my phone, but it doesn’t enumerate if I plug it straight into my laptop. But it does enumerate on the end of that noncompliant USB-C extension cable I’ve concocted.…


  • The playback of the videos happens in what seems like a hazy, light, borderless frame, giving the videos a dreamlike quality. It is a very strange feeling — as if you have been transported back in time — and the videos have a dimensionality to them. The spatial videos I experienced felt more like memories…


  • I wonder if someone is bringing all the FRB signals together and throwing and AI at the fused data stream… As detailed in a new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society this week, researchers spotted a “never-before-seen” burst dubbed FRB 20220912A using the SETI Institute’s Allen Telescope Array, a collection of 42 antennae…


  • A settlers voice…