I’m sure everyone has seen the footage this week of what appeared to be an American reporter hurriedly closing Porn Hub when going live to report on the election. Nor surprisingly, this turned out to be fake. “Fake news” has become something of a common occurrence in this modern world of social media unfortunately. A…
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The Mandela Effect
On a recent episode of Criminal Minds they talked about the Mandela Effect while giving a profile. I’d never heard of it before so looked into it. Turns out it is an actual thing. The Mandela effect occurs when a large group of people believe an event occurred when it did not. The Mandela effect…
Don’t believe everything you read
Professionally I’m an environmental scientist. I get frustrated with how political environmental issues have become. With the divisive left and right of politics having drawn a line in the sand where it comes to the environment, it doesn’t seem to matter what the science says anymore. Even worse, the media seem to believe it’s up…
The symbiotic duck
I learnt about this last year, and as an environmental scientist I thought it was a wonderful story. In the middle of a bitterly cold winter I’m sure we’re all grateful to snuggle under a doona, duvet, quilt or eiderdown (the name depends upon where you live). What you may not realise is that an…
Hang dog
I went to a workshop a few years back on body language. It was fascinating, but this image shows how effective studying body language is…