Stu shares on Facebook: "Back in the early days TV3 ran a competition to see who could come up with the most creative '3'…A friend of mine made a video of himself using a jigsaw and cutting a '3' in the roof of a brand new car, which he then bent up so it was standing upright above the roof. He won a prize for the — 14-inch colour TV. Afterwards, he cut the rest of the opening and installed a sunroof."
Not OK for this Boomer
"One of the fall-outs from the Covid crisis is that NZ universities have adopted online examinations as standard," writes Marty. "In my day, exams were sat in large halls with socially distant individual tables, to prevent you from stealing a peek at another student's written response. The examination halls were tightly supervised and even toilet breaks were escorted. Compare this with an online exam done at home, where any number of support team members could easily assist, or even with screen sharing capabilities, you could have subject matter experts anywhere in the world at your disposal. I know you are not supposed to do this, but how does this play out in reality? How can this be a substitute for an exam being sat under supervision?"
Did you know…
1. Beer is thought to be older than bread. It's much easier to fill a jar with wheat and water, let it ferment, and brew beer than it is to grind grain, mix it, and bake it.
2. Spiders tune their webs like guitar strings, tightening and loosening strands so they can read the different frequencies caused by intruders and determine where/how big the intruders are, if they are predator or prey, or if they're just a potential mate flirtatiously strumming their strings.
3. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, "strengths" is the longest word in the English language with one vowel. The word contains nine letters, eight of them being consonants.