Boo stressors! Does cold water swimming ever help with your joints? It helps my mild joint issues, not sure how good for serious complaints. Though got to watch out for 🥶 and tiny 🦞 🦞 🦞 in Dunedin water!
I've just returned from a few weeks of caring for a family member who's been dealing with illnesses associated with smoking and nicotine addiction for half of his life - www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Philip Morris planned to apply "political pressure" to get tax cuts for heated tobacco products, a document shows.
Spent the night in Martinborough with a full moon and clear skies and the sound of helicopters protecting the (early) budding vines from frost. Minus 2 degrees when I got up this morning!
1/4 It’s time to count the cost of cruise ship luxury emissions. 🛳️ Coral Princess, Princess Cruises, was in Tāmaki Makaurau today and we were there too, to raise awareness of cruise ships’ outsized but under-the-radar pollution.
BTW the TL;DR is that we're at a point where our national geological sciences agency is proposing cutting positions in things like hazards monitoring and risk modelling because of funding instability. Absolutely zero consideration of national capability let alone the public good.
Would love to be able to stop doing these kinds of interviews (and to have been wrong about mounting job losses in the science sector)
Scientists are worried that New Zealand will lose key knowledge if jobs go at GNS science. Association of Scientists Dr Lucy Stewart spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.
Indeed! Perhaps even a nice coffee table book :)
I saw some impressive ditches last week in Rangataua 🤔